Being A Good Leader Quotes

Being A Good Leader Quotes by Thomas J. Watson, George Orwell, William Arthur Ward, Laozi, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower and many others.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead

Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson
High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
Laozi
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln
You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
Arleigh Burke
The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy Giuliani
People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
Theodore Roosevelt
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.
Robert Jarvik
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Aristotle
A leader leads by example not by force.
Sun Tzu
The original thing that fascinated me most was why we expect leaders, and especially presidents, at times to destroy themselves – and that’s a sign of being a good leader or a good president. We usually don’t expect that of almost anyone else in any profession, in particular, in public life.
Michael Beschloss

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