Good Leader Quotes

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, "We did this ourselves.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity.

To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences.

President Obama has his faults, but overall, I think, is a good president.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

If you want to lead, you have to heed.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and he will fail.

There's two parts of leadership. You've got to be a good leader - you've got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people. But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That's the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

[Theresa May] is very sensible and I think that's a good thing at this point in time.

While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.

Great leadership can be a difficult thing to pin down and understand. You know a great leader when you're working for one, but even they can have a hard time articulating what it is that makes their leadership so effective.

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.

The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability.

A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.

I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader can't just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Lead by listening - to be a good leader you have to be a great listener.

He's an extreme competitor. There are a lot of big freaks out there, God gave them talent, but they don't possess the same competitiveness that LeBron does. I think he's a very good leader, but I'm a huge fan, so I'm very biased.

Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.

People had so much respect for George Mitchell. They wanted to cooperate with him. I think that's a hallmark of a very good leader.