INSPIRATIONAL LEADERS QUOTE

My best quotes about business success have been inspired by the world’s best leaders.

Leadership quotes illustrating the importance of leadership to personal success as well as to helping others achieve success.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, business owner, or manager, here are 20 leadership quotes to help motivate yourself to peak performance.

Remember that true leadership is about striving to become better in all areas of life and empowering everyone around you to become the best versions of themselves.

Always focus on improving your leadership qualities as well as others around you.

20 Success Quotes For Inspirational Leaders.

Here are 20 of my favorite inspirational quotes for business leaders. If you find them to be particularly motivating, please share this post with your friends.

à“Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.”

à“Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people”

à“Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.”

à“Clarity is the key to effective leadership. What are your goals?”

à“The best leaders have a high Consideration Factor. They really care about their people”

à“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

à“The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.”

à“The effective leader recognizes that they are more dependent on their people than they are on them. Walk softly.”

à“Leaders never use the word failure. They look upon setbacks as learning experiences.”

à“Practice Golden Rule Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.”

à“Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you’ve changed your mind. Don’t persist when the original decision turns out to be the poor one.”

à“Leaders are anticipatory thinkers. They consider all consequences of their behaviors before they act.”

à“The true test of leadership is how well you function in a crisis.”

à“Leaders concentrate single-mindedly on one thing. The most important thing and they stay at it until it’s complete.”

à“The three C’s, of leadership are Consideration, Caring, and Courtesy. Be polite to everyone.”

à“Respect is the key determines how well they perform.”

à“Leadership is more who you are than what you do.”

à“Entrepreneurial leadership requires the ability to move quickly when opportunity presents itself.”

à“Leaders are innovative, entrepreneurial, and future oriented. They focus on getting the job done.”

à“Leaders are never satisfied; they continually strive to be better.”

à“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

à“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

à“Being a leader is a lot like being a lady, if you have to tell people you are one, you aren’t.”

à“A good leader delights in and encourages the success and independence of those he leads and mentors. A weak one wants to perpetuate dependency on them and feels threatened by the follower’s success. But worst of all is the leader who deliberately sabotages the success of others so they can remain on top. That is how the entire enterprise eventually fails as no one is allowed to thrive outside of the leader and those who are strong are forced to leave in order to prosper.”

à“Writers write, composers compose, leaders lead. Take actions.”

à“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

à“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

à“Followers who tell the truth, and leaders who listen to it, are an unbeatable combination.”

à“Leadership is the capability to translate vision into reality.”

à“Titles don’t have much value when it comes to leading. True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed or assigned. It comes only from influence, and that cannot be mandated. It must be earned.”

à“My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to really men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”

à“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”

à“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

à“True leadership lies in guiding others to success --- in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

à“A good leader takes little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share in credit.”

à“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

à“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

à“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

à“People buy into leader before they buy into the vision.”

à“Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

à“The law of empowerment: Only secure leaders give power to others”

à“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but  not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

à“Without initiative leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.”

à“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”

à“Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.”

à“You must first lead yourself before you can lead others.”

à“Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.”

à“When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘we did it ourselves.”

à“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.”

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