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Leadership Quotes
"A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving."
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"You cannot climb up to a true leadership position unless you use the ladder of integrity!"
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"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
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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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"It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen."
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"It's embarrassing when a leader is clueless about his/her limitations (blind spots) while his/her people are well aware and making fun out of them."
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"One must command from each what each can preform."
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"Be the chief but never the lord."
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"Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing."
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"Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership."
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."
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"If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain..."
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"You want to be extra careful when making big decisions, but once you make a decision, stick with it."
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"Organizational democracy will begin to become a fundamental management practice to update the hierarchical command-control systems."
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"The average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher."
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"A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others."
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"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."
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"Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations."
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"Leaders don't watch but make things happen-initiate change."
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"There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm."
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"PROMISING, VOWING...cannot earn us trust. Trust can't be generated overnight. No SHORT CUT! It takes DOING over a very long period of time."
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"The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach."
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"The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care."
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"The political Greeders mindset wastes resources that could transform the future of tens of millions of people and the destinies of the countries.We need to rethink Leadership and politics."
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"Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader."
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"The world will lose its treasures if everyone depends on someone to think for him/her! The world will lose its pleasures if everyone depends on someone to make him/her happy!"
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"Real leadership means tackling tough problems ourselves and not leaving them to our children."
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"Teams Triumph When Today's Tribe Leaders Transform Their Mindset."
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"There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party."
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"Getting to the top should be a priority, but being aware of the reason for getting there should be the focus!"
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"Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership."
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"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
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"Authenticity is the most fundamental, but challenging attribute for leadership."
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"Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart."
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"An incompetent person in a responsible position may cause huge damage. Such a person should act less and think more."
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"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty."
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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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"When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteoousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders'."
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"Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man - the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force."
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"Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it."
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"He's one of those managers you'd give your left leg to play for."
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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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"The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him."
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"To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too."
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"It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions."
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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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"I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up. Then he told me that he didn't think the United States landed on the moon and didn't believe in the existence of Osama bin Laden. He thought all of this was a put-up job. He's a wacko."
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"We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps."
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