Great Leaders Quotes

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

Great, History, Political

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, Doubt, Through

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

Leadership, Time, Great

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
Charles de Gaulle

Great, Leaders, Effects

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

Great, Hope, Freedom

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
Steve Ballmer

Work, Great, Start

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

Time, Great, Heart

Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.
Allen Klein

Humor, Great, Power

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.
Phil Crosby

Great, Through, Sometimes

Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
Reed Hastings

Great, Long, Leaders

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

Great, War, Defeat

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

Great, Moving, Team

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

Religion, Politics, Great

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

Success, Great, Feeling

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

Great, Experience, Career

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

Great, Political, Giving

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee

Great, Best, Leaders

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