Leadership Traits Quotes

If your leadership is truly grounded in love, you’ll always land in the category of a good leader.

~ Glenn C. Stewart

People don’t follow you because you are nice, they follow you because they believe the place you are taking them is better than the place they are.

~ Scott Hammerle

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

~ Scott Hammerle

The formula for successful leadership has changed little, if at all over the centuries. It isn’t leadership that changes over time, rather where the leaders need to take their people that changes.

~ Scott Hammerle

Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity

~ Michael Harris

If you're not reaching back to help anyone then you're not building a legacy.

~ Germany Kent

Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.

~ William A. Adams

In leadership, the way up is down. Serve before you get served

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

~ Michele Jennae

True leadership is not defined by notoriety, power, prestige, status, or job title.

~ Angie Morgan

Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Leadership is an unlimited resource and as such, is a lifelong pursuit of learning. That learning must be to transform 'leader of position' to 'leadership with moral purpose'.

~ Hilarie Owen

A call to duty, a call for service.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets.

~ Angela L Craig

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

~ Germany Kent

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

~ Stan Slap

There is nothing worse for a young convert than to be thrust into leadership without mentoring and ongoing coaching because the devil relishes these vulnerable souls.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

~ Stan Slap

You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies, they trust people.

~ Stan Slap

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

~ Stan Slap

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

~ Stan Slap

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

~ Stan Slap

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

~ Stan Slap

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

~ Stan Slap

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

~ Stan Slap

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

~ Stan Slap

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

~ Stan Slap

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

~ Stan Slap

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

~ Stan Slap

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

~ Stan Slap

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

~ Stan Slap

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

~ Stan Slap

A company can’t buy true emotional commitment from managers no matter how much it’s willing to spend, this is something too valuable to have a price tag. And yet a company can’t afford not to have it.

~ Stan Slap

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

~ Stan Slap

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

~ Stan Slap

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

~ Stan Slap

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

~ Stan Slap

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

~ Stan Slap