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Leadership Quotes
"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."
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"Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge."
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"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."
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"Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way."
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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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"I don't like it when I outweigh my men."
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"So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy."
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"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts."
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"On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places."
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"We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses."
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"Change is possible only if the top management agrees."
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"The one thing that the President can do is to establish a real energy independence plan. We have all the recources we need right here in this country to establish energy independence if we had the leadership."
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"True leaders don't look at just the outward appearances in the selection of team members, they look at one's core values and heart."
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"As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge."
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"I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial."
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"A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process."
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"God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him."
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"I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them."
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"It's a stupid leader who can't turn follower when somebody offers him a wiser course."
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"{We} have not to crown the exceptional man who knows he can rule, rather we must crown the much more exceptional man who knows he can't."
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"If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman."
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"If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders."
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"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."
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"That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment."
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"I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team."
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"To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to be truly taught, is to sincerely do. To lead. To start. To achieve. Willingly and urgently doing the work to make change."
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"Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?"
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"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
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"Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other."
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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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"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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"Now I have known Sen. Bill Frist, the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, since he was born."
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"Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents."
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"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
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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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"Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic."
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"You need to think about all that, Sam, Dekka said. "You're the leader, after all."Not anymore, he said.Dekka laughed. She stood up and stretched. "Sam: you're still the leader. You're always going to be the leader. It's not something you choose: it's something you are."
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"It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set."
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"Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense."
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"We shall meet again before long to march to new triumphs."
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"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship."
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"The great majority of people are "wandering generalities rather than "meaningful specifics. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals."
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"One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership."
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"But if we are to remain a great empire, we must have a greater understanding of the hearts and minds of others."
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"She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He's a religion for non-believers."
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"Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don't die with your books in your mind unpublished!"
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"Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique."
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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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