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The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. -- Charles de Gaulle
Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor. -- Allen Klein
Average leaders inspire people to punch a time clock. Great leaders inspire industry and passion. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. -- Phil Crosby
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness. -- Simon Sinek
Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done. -- Simon Sinek
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals. -- Chip Conley
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. -- Blaine Lee
Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers. -- Simon Sinek
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. -- Colin Powell
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo. -- John P. Kotter
Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line. -- Pat Williams
I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities. -- Mary Barra
I'm from the school that great performers and great leaders create more great leaders. Give people other experiences, other responsibilities. Have them join organizations within the company and outside the company. -- John Stumpf
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible. -- Chris Cannon
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. -- Moliere
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement. -- Jonathan Kozol
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity. -- Jeffrey Sachs
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. -- Simon Sinek
It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union. -- John H. Reagan
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders. -- Steve Ballmer
One of the lessons of leadership worth emphasizing is that you want to get to know other great leaders and take their advice. At some point in your development, it's only people who've been in the seat of having to be leaders who can help you in a deep way. -- Jim Yong Kim
Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart. -- Peter Guber
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. -- Pope Francis
Be wary of great leaders. -- Pete Seeger
Successful leaders are great askers -- Warren G. Bennis
Great obstacles make great leaders. -- Billy Diamond
Great leaders create memorable journeys -- John Stein
Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves. -- Royce White
Great leaders make people feel important. -- John Addison
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate. -- Andy Mineo
Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception. -- John C. Maxwell
Great leaders make leadership look so easy. -- Pat Heim
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Great leaders gain authority by giving it away. -- James Stockdale
Great leaders don't play by the existing rules. -- Mark V. Hurd
Great leaders rally people to a better future. -- Marcus Buckingham
Great leaders passed away, politicians made their way." -- Yssubramanyam
Great leaders are never too proud to learn. -- John Donahoe
Great leaders see money as fuel, not a destination. -- Simon Sinek
Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves -- Marshall Goldsmith
We all know that great leaders can create great successes. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders. -- Nicky Oppenheimer
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders. -- Steve Ballmer
Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition. -- John P. Kotter
ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders. -- Don Nickles
Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human. -- Simon Sinek
Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do. -- Simon Sinek
The best leaders are the most dedicated learners. Read great books daily. -- Robin Sharma
Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders. -- Steve Ballmer
We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders. -- Eden Robinson
In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share. -- Avery Johnson
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. -- John F. Kennedy
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term. -- Reed Hastings
Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader. -- Peter Burwash
The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead. -- Erwin McManus
Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey. -- Simon Sinek
Leaders stand out. Good leaders succeed. Great leaders make a difference in the world. -- Cheryl Richardson
Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say. -- Ben Roethlisberger
This is all about having great leaders who can drive agile innovation and agile decision-making. -- Steve Ballmer
Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. -- Peter Drucker
Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion. -- Charles Krauthammer
Great leaders are always out front with a banner, instead of behind with a whip. -- John Wooden
Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them. -- Simon Sinek
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders. -- Billy Graham
Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others. -- John C. Maxwell
Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others. -- Marshall Goldsmith
Great leaders have an ability, a characteristic of analyzing very good talent, and empowering that talent. -- Rick Perry
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection. -- Roy Barnes
Great leaders focus on equipping their team. It is unfair to expect what you did not equip. -- Chris Hogan
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. -- Moliere
Great leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself. -- Rick Warren
Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable. -- George Hammond
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well. -- Albert Mohler
Great leaders don't try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that's what makes them great. -- Simon Sinek
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. -- John Peter Zenger
More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves. -- William J. Clinton
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others. -- Jon Gordon
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others. -- John C. Maxwell
Great leaders are pragmatists who can deal with difficult realities but still have the optimism and courage to act. -- Nitin Nohria
True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. -- J. Oswald Sanders
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time? -- Kurt Vonnegut
Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be -- Condoleezza Rice
If I can inspire some leaders, that would be great. I don't know if I want to be a leader. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love. -- Cornel West
Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn't working-no matter how hard they've worked to make it succeed. -- Jim Rohn
Great leaders have no need for reputation. Reputation is what you are in public. Character is who you are in private. -- Myles Munroe
Lots of countries have great constitutions, but their leaders have a practice of ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it. -- Adam Davidson
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.. -- Blaine Lee Pardoe
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses. -- Carl Icahn
Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes. -- Rick Riordan
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen. -- Phil Cooke
Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer. -- David Bryant
One of the greatest secrets of great leaders; 'they are not controlled by what they cannot do'. They directed by what they can. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The ability to stay calm and focused in the midst of change is what distinguishes great leaders from those just collecting a paycheck. -- Todd Stocker
During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders. -- Bart Starr
Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar. -- Orrin Woodward
Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly. -- Simon Sinek
Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us. -- Hans Finzel
The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man. -- James Joyce
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation . -- Napoleon Hill
All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others. -- John C. Maxwell
We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
Business leaders should provide expertise in service of our country. My predecessors at GE have done so, as have leaders of many other great American companies. -- Jeffrey R. Immelt
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments. -- Michael Parenti
We always enter markets where the leaders are not doing a great job, so we can go in and disrupt them by offering better quality services. -- Richard Branson
Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader. -- Jack Welch
Saladin had the same immediate successor as all the great Muslim leaders of his time: civil war. Barely had he died that his empire was dismembered. -- Amine Maalouf
Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders have vision, share vision, and inspire others to create their own. -- Roy Bennett
Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Responsibility: Great leaders greet their geniuses through their greatest power of choice, principle-based living and highest means of expressing their voice. -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
The great need of the world has always been for leaders. With more leaders we could have more industry. More industry, more employment and comfort for all. -- Henry Ford
Great leaders are great servants because the only way of setting an example is by demonstrating an example. Service to mankind is the key to true leadership! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Great leaders create movements by empowering the tribe to communicate. They establish the foundation for people to make connections, as opposed to commanding people to follow them. -- Seth Godin
When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United. -- Laozi
Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history. -- John Moody

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