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Leadership Quotes
"There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party."
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"Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise."
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"The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert."
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"America must be a light to the world, not just a missile."
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"We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that."
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"Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally."
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"Have clean hands in whatever you do. Integrity is doing the right thing when people are watching you and still making it right when they keep their eyes off."
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"Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents."
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"Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens."
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"If the UN and other international multilateral institutions are sending troops and weaponry, now they must begin to fund training and leadership development at the same levels. The new war must start with the quality of beliefs and dreams that are planted into the hearts and minds of school children at a personal level and permeate the driving philosophies of entire societies and communities."
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"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
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"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside."
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"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
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"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique."
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"How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading."
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"This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups."
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"And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership."
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"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."
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"True leaders demonstrate initiatives-They lead the way for others to follow."
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"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
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"Your bread assumes the shape of the pan in which you bake your flour. Therefore stand still and know that you can't use a rounded pan and ever get squared bread. Change the pan and get your desired shape of the bread!"
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"A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!"
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"Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party."
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"I believe "Leadership" is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge."
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"If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!"
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"A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!"
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"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
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"Nothing is so rewarding than the patience that you take to go over the ramps of life. They may slow you down, but you are an unstoppable hero. Keep driving!"
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
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"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
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"If we protect the 'underhand' [those working under us], then the 'boss' will protect us. If we constantly reprimand the 'underhand', then the boss will constantly reprimand us."
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"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership."
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"Stop the pity party! Your sorrow is full and complete when you go through unfortunate circumstances and decide to mourn for life as a result of the unexpected."
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"Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."
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"Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you."
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"One of the first steps to successful leadership is to always forget your age and remember your dream regularly."
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"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
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"True leaders do not make choices with reference to the opinion of the majority. They make choices based on the opinion of the truth and the truth can come from either the majority or the minority!"
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"We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest."
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"People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near."
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"It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute."
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"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
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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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"With teamwork, any little contribution you make yields greater output when it meets the contribution of others, and guess who gets the plus? Everyone in the team!"
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"A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI."
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"Change plus innovation equals progress!"
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"The Leader will be a person with the management skills to coordinate the activities of the Team, and to assure that the Team remains faithful to the objectives of the incoming President."
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"One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century."
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