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Leadership Quotes
"America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska."
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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
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"The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live."
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"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
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"To be a statesman, you must first get elected."
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"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
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"Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership."
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"I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister."
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"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
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"Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems."
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"If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized."
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"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party."
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"We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means."
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"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
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"At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means."
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"Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest."
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"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
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"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments."
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"Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another."
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"The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything.""
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"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."
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"The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines."
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"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
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"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."
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"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
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"Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far."
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"The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president."
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"In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British."
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"Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company."
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"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."
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"There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!"
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"I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership."
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"But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great."
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"I don't like it when I outweigh my men."
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"Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures."
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"Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people."
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"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
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"When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you."
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"The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver."
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"The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas."
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"The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain."
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"My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service."
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"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
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"This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage."
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"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
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"Those leaders who are conscious of theirs and their organization's values are quick to take bold actions than those who aren't yet attuned."
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"How to change the world: spread positivity; bring people up instead of dragging them down; treat others the way you wish to be treated."
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"Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets BP rather than other companies? I don't think that - would be right."
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"I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it."
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