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Leadership Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself."
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"All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people."
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"Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control."
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"Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success."
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"I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so."
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"As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as 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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"As long as the opposition believes the world will stand with Ukraine's democrat reformers, they will have the leverage and the courage to establish a legitimate republic under the leadership of Viktor Yushchenko."
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"Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another."
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"I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change."
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
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"A star wants to see himself rise to the top.A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top."
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"Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline."
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"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."
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"If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss."
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"A leader has a great duty. You have to perform beyond the expectation of the people."
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"I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met... He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way."
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"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
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"What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots."
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"We are tasked to rebuild not just a damaged economy, and a debt-ridden balance sheet, but to do so by drawing forth the best that is in our fellow citizens. If we would summon the best from Americans, we must assume the best about them. If we don't believe in Americans, who will?"
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"For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going - unless we are able to strengthen our core, we're going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable."
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"I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask."
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
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"Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates."
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"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."
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"Leaders don't fall in love with mediocrity. The status quo isn't their desire to maintain but to improve."
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"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight."
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"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
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"I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office."
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"The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas."
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"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
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"At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not."
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"By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world."
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"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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