The Key to Being a Great Leader | Success Podcasts

The Key to Being a Great Leader | Success Podcasts

Published: February 3, 2026

Duration: 16:46

Listen to episode 1092 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Key to Being a Great Leader. Edited & adapted from “Getting On” by Orison Swett Marden.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The leaders of the world (be it in business, science, or the arts) have ever been precedent breakers. Timid people, no matter how able, never make leaders. Fearlessness and originality are characteristic of all leaders of progress. They have no reverence for the old simply because it is old; with them it is always a question of pushing forward, of improving on the past, instead of slavishly copying it. 

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