Leadership Quality Quotes

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Every country has the government it deserves.

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

The true measure of leadership is influence - nothing more, nothing less.

I admire Obama.

You can no more have a fool as a king than a blind man to lead you along the road

A politician that is poor is a poor politician.

We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

The measure of a leader is not the number of people who serve him, but the number of people he serves.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

When we look at really good high-performing companies abroad, they are always at the back of an extremely high-performing board, and that is something which is very lacking in this country.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

Democracy sounded well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a more practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man, than to find many of them.

We've had some Presidents who were pretty lazy.

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

It's really hard to judge people until you see what they do with the job.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

Great leaders inspire incredible loyalty in their followers and subordinates.

I think you're either born a leader or you're not.

Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.

People don't like what's happened to the big parties. They think they've been dragged off to the extremes. They think the quality of leadership is below what a country like the United Kingdom ought to have available. And they want something different.