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Leadership Quotes
"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it."
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"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols."
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"House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?"
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"By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader."
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"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model."
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"Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising."
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"While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face."
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"Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates."
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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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"At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage."
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"The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
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"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
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"Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you."
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"Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry."
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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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"Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems."
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"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you."
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"If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized."
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"I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader."
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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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"The condition in New Orleans was changing every day. I said, why don't we appropriate another $10 billion, come back and look at the situation, and do another $10 billion every week, or every 10 days?"
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"I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind."
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"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
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"A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end."
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"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."
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"It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward."
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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
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"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
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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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"I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions."
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"To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way."
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"For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would."
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"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."
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"I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia."
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"One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers."
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"Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today."
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"As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously."
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"Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men."
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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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"We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything."
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"The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?"
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"Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank."
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"Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP."
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"So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different."
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"I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power."
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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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"If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes."
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