Competent Leader Quotes & Sayings

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much
everything
for the exterior uses to which they may be put ... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates. — Woodrow Wilson

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. — John J. Pershing

In business, integrity is just as important as in any of the great public offices ... but I believe one of the first and fundamental obligations of competent business leadership is above all to protect the reputation and integrity of the business - to that degree the integrity of the business is the integrity of the leader. — Peter Cosgrove

A productive leader must be very competent in staffing. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I am simply competent ... Not a leader except when leadership is lacking. — Brent Weeks

While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly but gets mediocre or relatively poor ratings being competent strong, intelligent, and a forceful leader. — Robert Teeter

All of us long for a competent, uncorrupt, charismtatic leader. We will leap at the opportunity to support, to believe, to feel good. — Carl Sagan

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace — Timothy Keller