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All Quotes Collection
"The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born."
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"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery."
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"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out."
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"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."
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"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."
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"There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish."
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"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."
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"The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective."
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"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person."
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"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
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"The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it."
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"The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why."
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"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."
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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."
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"All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."
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"Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping."
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"As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow."
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears."
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"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
Mind,
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"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."
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"I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction."
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"The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives."
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"The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the Business Profits Tax is calculated, it is highly dependent on how much sales and profits are generated in-state."
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"So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before."
Now,
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"Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June."
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"I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job."
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"I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign."
44
"I do not support gambling in this state."
47
"California has set up regional collection offices around the world, staffed by California employees, specifically for out of state California businesses to collect the money and bring it back to California."
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"We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it."
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"And, in the case of schools, or anything else, if you have something that is forcing you to do better than you did the day before, it makes you look forward and it makes you think in a way that's going to make the product better, which is the students and the education."
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"Actually, I think I come at things a whole different way from most people, and, you know, sometimes political answers are one way to solve the problem, and sometimes there are better ways to do it."
42
"Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul."
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"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to."
38
"Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order."
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"The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God."
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"Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires."
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"If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher."
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"Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees."
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