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Leadership Quotes
"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
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"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders."
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"Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs."
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"I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader."
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"Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet."
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"A mayor is a symbol and a public face of what a city bureaucracy provides its citizens."
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"People are attracted to leaders who are skillful in motivating them to become more, do more, and achieve more..."
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"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit."
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"It's not about the money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get done."
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
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"Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."
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"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength."
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"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."
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"Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility."
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"Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading."
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"Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference."
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"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."
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"The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America."
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"There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned."
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"To lead and live the life of your dream, you must arise and be in-charge of the authorship of your own destiny."
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"The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this."
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"Leadership is not only about producing results or measuring success with statistics. Leadership is doing something with significance that makes families, organizations, societies, nations, and the world a better place before you die."
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"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
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"Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others."
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"Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader."
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"The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay."
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"Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers."
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"I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed."
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"Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER."
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"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."
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"To become a leader through one's merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities]."
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"Better to have the trust of the people than their respect. With trust, their respect could be earned later; without it, respect could never be deserved, and so to have it would be like poison."
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"It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known."
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"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
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"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
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"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership."
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"If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name."
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"I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders."
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"Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want."
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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
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"The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one."
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"There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run."
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"Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it."
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"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
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"Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project."
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"The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction."
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"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."
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"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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"Some day, someone will do something wrong and there will be a scandal to report in the paper. When that happens, we will address it honestly and openly and try to deal with it as quickly and as fairly as we can, and keep moving the city forward."
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