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Leadership Quotes
"Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating."
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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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"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
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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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"I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one."
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"While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago."
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"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for 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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"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
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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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"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
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"I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership."
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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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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"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
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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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"I was initially a leading man, but only on television."
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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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"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."
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"Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable."
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"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
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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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"Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture."
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"I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me."
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"Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally."
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"You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable."
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."
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"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
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"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
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"A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice."
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"The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands."
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"Leaders don't step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants."
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"I don't believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and make them right."
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"We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It's trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there's no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that's my view."
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"Power over others is weakness disguised as strength."
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"You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity."
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"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
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"Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist."
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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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"The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek."
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"If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!"
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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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"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
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"The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols."
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"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
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"It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation."
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"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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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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"Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution."
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