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Leadership Quotes
"A leader should have the same attitude of God's love toward people."
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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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"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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"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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"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
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"When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors."
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"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
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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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"Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it."
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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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"People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working."
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"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it."
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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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"Every true leader is a true follower. Every true follower is a true leader. You are followed because of the dreams you pursue, you pursue others because of the dreams they follow!"
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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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"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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"Leaders don't step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants."
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"I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung."
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"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
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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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"If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations."
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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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"Simplicity is the language of leadership."
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"Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight."
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."
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"A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment."
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"I once took a city with five men and a lame goat. If I can do that, you can convince the necromancers to pledge themselves to you. Do this or die."
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"To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away."
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"As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future."
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"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."
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"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make."
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"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
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"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes."
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"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
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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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"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
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"It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it."
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"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under."
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"Great countries are those that produce great people."
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"The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics."
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."
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"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."
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"Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action."
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"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
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"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old."
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"The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise."
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"Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing."
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