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Leadership Quotes
"The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader."
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"As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also."
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"All the progress in science can't be used to build a smell receptor as capable as the one that a true leader possesses-to smell trouble or just something fishy."
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"Working together as a team helps build a cohesive organization."
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"Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century."
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"Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good."
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"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
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"Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular."
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"People will follow you when you build the character to follow through."
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"Leaders don't call unhappy followers "ungrateful people". They see them as "lesson teachers". They find out why they are unhappy, perhaps it could be as a result of their attitudes. That informs them to change!"
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"I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important."
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"A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders."
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"He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities."
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"If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues."
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"This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership."
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"If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then that they become objects of your destiny instead of you playing a support role in theirs."
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"A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving."
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"We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy-or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?"
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
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"By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it."
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"I wonder much that a court of Law should be in doubt whether a Resolution of Congress can superceed the Law of a Sovereign State."
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"Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it."
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"To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them."
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"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
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"The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership."
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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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"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
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"When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone."
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"We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again."
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"In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision."
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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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"Thinking about lunch. Smoked salmon with pedigreed lettuce and razor-sharp slices of onion that have been soaked in ice water, brushed with horseradish and mustard, served on French butter rolls baked in the hot ovens of Kinokuniya. A sandwich made in heaven."
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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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"Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership."
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"Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world."
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"Let them obey that know not how to rule."
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"If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do."
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"A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement."
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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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"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
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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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"We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not."
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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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"I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes."
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"On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement."
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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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"Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable."
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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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