Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

James C. Collins Quotes: The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.
         

The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.


James C. Collins
Check all other quotes by James C. Collins

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"James C. Collins Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Fri. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/The-x-factor-of-a-great-leader-682248>.





Check out


Other quotes of James C. Collins


Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.



Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.



Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.



The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.



Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.



Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.



True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.



The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.



If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.



The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.





Other quotes you may like


Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.



Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.



The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.



It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.



I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.



Your body is a flower that life let bloom.

Your body is a flower that life let bloom.



I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.

I'd been taking singing lessons and I had taken dance, because I loved to dance, but I had never considered myself a professional at all.



Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.



Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.

Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when it is long deferred.



I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "The x factor of a great leader is humility combined with will.". Author of this quote is James C. Collins. This quote is about leader, great leader, humility,.