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That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.
Sep 10, 2025
At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test, whether or not you believe in being an emotionally intelligent leader, is when things go wrong.
One thing that all the totalitarian states did was make the great leader's face everywhere.
Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.
Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.
Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
Great leaders, like Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, also focused on the long term.
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.
Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.
Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
To be a great leader, you must be a great listener
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.
In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.
Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.
Great leaders remove obstacles-including themselves.
Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.
The development and/or revelation of a CEO's potential for great leadership requires slow escalations of experiences that involve pressure, each time given the tools to succeed. Successful experience breeds confidence, as well as an eventual restlessness to try more.
Most great leaders are also great communicators. Great leaders have learned how to persuade so their objectives can be reached. The most powerful device to persuade is story. Stating facts and figures is not memorable. Emotionally connecting your audience to your idea through story will move them.
Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.
In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.
Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others.
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.
A great leader cannot worry about being well liked.
Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
A great leader makes what is visible in their mind, visible to all.
Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.
Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.
Great leaders understand that the right attitude will set the right atmosphere, which enables the right response from others.
Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.
If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do.
To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow
Power isn't control at all-power is strength, and giving that strength to others. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own.
We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.
I do think stories are one of the best tools for communicating across any number of cultures. But I also think there are wildly successful leaders who are introverted, disciplined, lead via spreadsheets and goals, and might not "appear" to be a great leader...but in retrospect, made a massive impact.
Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes.
Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.
Great leaders always have self-discipline -without exception.
There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.
Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.
Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes.
Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be prooud, but not arrogant.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.