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181 Inspirational Quotes for Leaders of Growing Businesses

PUBLISHED: 13/09/2018

(This article was first published on our Coachical blog: https://coachical.com/inspirational-quotes-for-leaders/)



If you’re looking to grow your business, it is important to stay motivated and keep an open mind.  Inspiration is the first step to success.  We’ve brought together a variety of quotes from business leaders, gurus, change agents and other great minds to help inspire you to grow your business and achieve even greater levels of success.



On our blog you can filter the quotes by different topic areas, by year and we have also selected our favourites. To all explore all 181 using these filters go to https://coachical.com/inspirational-quotes-for-leaders/



But here are our favourites:



“A leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.” – Nelson Mandela



“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.” – Laozi



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



“What helps people, helps business” – Leo Burnett



“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill



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



“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” – Kenneth H. Blanchard



“Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” – Sara Blakely



“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.” – Steve Jobs



“The most important job you have is growing your people, giving them a chance to reach their dreams.” – Jack Welch



“Leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” – Mitt Romney



“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy



“Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.” – Reed Markham



“Don’t find the fault, find the remedy.” – Henry Ford



“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.” – Jack Welch



“A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.” – Hans Finzel



“Leadership is a choice not a position.” – Stephen Covey



“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” – Brian Tracy



“A leader is someone who demonstrates what’s possible.” – Mark Yarnell



“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” – John Maxwell



“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama



“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.” – John Maxwell



“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh



“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan



“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.” – Orrin Woodward



“The quickest way to grow the sales of your business is to grow your people.” – Robin Sharma



Think we’ve missed an epic and inspiring quote? Check out our full list at https://coachical.com/inspirational-quotes-for-leaders/ or do comment your favouirte quotes. 


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