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Leadership Quotes
"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf."
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"But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour."
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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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"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
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"But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership."
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"I believe President Bush is one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. He is not in search of peaceful and diplomatic solutions."
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"Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move."
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
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"The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
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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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"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."
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"It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional."
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"We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them."
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"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design."
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"Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-oriented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection."
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"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
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"I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and make them right."
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."
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"To lead the people walk behind them."
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"The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."
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"At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right."
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"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
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"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat."
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"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged."
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"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
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"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
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"Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty."
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"Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that."
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"It takes very little to govern good people."
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"Great countries are those that produce great people."
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"A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!"
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"It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require."
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"Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers."
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"Van Eck raised a brow. "How old are you, girl? Sixteen? Seventeen? Nations rise and fall. Markets are made and unmade. When power shifts, someone always suffers."
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"The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself."
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"To be a successful soldier or a politician, one must be able to suppress one's finer feelings and emotions."
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"I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone."
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"There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late."
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"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."
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"When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors."
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"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."
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"Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change."
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"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
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"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside."
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"Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted."
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