Leader Quotes

• The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

  

  Eugene Habecker
  • Price
  • Interests
  • Serves

• If San Francisco is indeed a city of leaders, then I think we should lead, and if we don't want a chain store, then we should say so loudly.

  

  Chicken John
  • Cities
  • Chains
  • Stores

• Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • Destiny
  • Leader
  • Grow

• If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Language
  • Speak

• I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • War
  • Hate
  • Leader

• The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

  

  Paul Robeson
  • People
  • Change
  • Forever

• A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Inspired
  • Leader
  • Inspire

• More often than not when we do not like our work, it's not necessarily because of the work itself. But more often because of the people we work with and more importantly because of the lack of leadership. It is amazing how inspired and motivated we can be when we like the people and when we feel like we show up to work because our leaders care about our wellbeing. It is kind of incredible actually.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Kind
  • Care
  • Inspired

• And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.

  

  Hal Moore
  • Home
  • Discipline
  • Leader

• And, most disappointing of all, Obama turned out to be a cautious, hesitant, almost timid chief executive, not the dynamic, bold, fearless leader we were all counting on.

  

  Bill Press
  • Leader
  • Chief
  • Obama

• We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Risk
  • Sacrifice

• Would anybody be offended if we gave a $150 million bonus to Gandhi? How about a $250 million bonus to Mother Teresa? Do we have an issue with that? None at all. None at all. Great leaders would never sacrifice the people to save the numbers. They would sooner sacrifice the numbers to save the people.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Mother
  • Sacrifice

• It is like when a player has a slump, we do not trade them, we coach them. It is the same with our employees. The best leaders come to the aid of their people, whose performance is down. Not come down harder on them.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Player
  • Trade

• The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities.

  

  Paul Polman
  • Discover
  • Investing
  • Responsibilities

• I think the Democrats have - we really have failed to be in rural America, in the sense of having our leaders spending time talking to folks in rural America. The president Barack Obama has been there, but other than the president and vice president, we have had not a whole lot of conversation in rural America.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • President
  • Leader
  • Democrat

• Hey! I'm their leader, I've got to follow them!

  

  Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
  • Leader
  • Follow

• Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Problem
  • Leader
  • Idiot

• Can't pick and choose when you're gonna be a leader. If you're gonna be it - gotta do it every day.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Leader
  • Picks

• The truth of the matter is one knows what it's like being the president. Not I, nor any president to come hence. This is because life, thankfully, offers deeper quandaries. While in office, I would often wake up in a daze, wondering how I could wiggle my toes without even thinking it so, or why hair grows only on certain places and not our entire bodies, or why we aren't completely bald, or why we must close our eyes and sleep every night, or any of the millions of particulars of daily existence, let alone that I was elected the leader of an entire nation.

  

  George Washington
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Bumble is the perfect fit for New Zealand, a country that has always been a world leader when putting women first.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  

  Mike Ferguson
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual

• Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Sometimes

• I make no mistakes. To be a great leader that has to be your mindset. And honestly, everything happens for a reason.

  

  Eric Jayk
  • Reason
  • Leader
  • Mistakes

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