Quotes About Leadership

A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.

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.'

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Good government only happens when the people working in it do their jobs, and do them well.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

Good kings are slaves, and their people are free.

We're showing a lot of the good signs you need for a good team, so I have high hopes.

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

We're (also) looking for a good people person who is able to motivate others and get strong performances out of people.

Hillary Clinton respects good ideas wherever they come from. That's something I haven't seen in a lot of powerful people.

Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices.

good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.

Acquiring and keeping good people is a leader's most important task.

Mr. Dingell is just plain Mr. Dingell. And when he gets to be chairman of the Commerce Committee, he doesn't let it go to his head. However, he thinks he would be a very, very good chairman.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

I talked to the players and tried to make them aware of what was good and bad, but I didn't try to run their lives.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

Every day was a good day at UCLA.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.