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Leadership Quotes
"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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"That Sinn Fein, as I've already indicated, their leaders have already indicated that's what they want to achieve - once we get that credible statement, then we can get around the table and start to move forward, and I'm confident we can do so."
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"A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future."
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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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"Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself."
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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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"Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better."
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"We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did."
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"We had a $10 billion budget deficit when we got here in January of 2003. We cut that budget deficit; we did not raise taxes; we came back in '05, and we had an $8 billion surplus. That's how fast it can happen."
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"I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false."
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"Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care."
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"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
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"A team's inspiration comes from individuals' aspirations. The combined quality of individual passions makes a team's impact to excel. When you are in a team, play a part!"
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"Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others."
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"Tell Khan Drogo that he has given me the wind."
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"Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership."
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"I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game."
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"Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you."
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"Leadership is absolutely about inspiring action, but it is also about guarding against mis-action."
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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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"One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim."
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"And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood."
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"What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place."
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"Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure."
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"Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn."
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"Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team."
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"If you care to know, majority of successful people in the world were all struck by limitations in one way or the other. What made them great isn't the absence of limitations; but it was their persistence to rise in the face of those limitations."
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"Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand."
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"A wise servant is better than a foolish ruler."
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"A leader who sows confidence will reap excellency and legacy. A leader who sows fear will reap stagnancy or complacency."
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"One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century."
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"Do not wait for leaders do it alone person to person."
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"You are the center of your life."
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"I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."
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"I'm a machine man, and I head a machine."
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"True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well."
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"How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do."
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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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"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
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"Our customer base is not necessarily a leader, an early adopter."
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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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"Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods."
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"I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold."
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"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."
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"Yesterday I was qualified, the Lord knows how, as your depute."
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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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"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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"Everyone has the spark of greatness, a leader's role is to pour oxygen onto it forming the fire within."
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