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Leadership Quotes
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
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"Leaders are not born, but made as a result of hard work."
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"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
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"One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process."
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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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"Africans must change their mind and actions. The keys to building your continent depends on your will-power, persistent effort and action towards self liberation."
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"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit."
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"The world needs new leadership, but the new leadership is about working together."
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"Decide be a success; decide to be great, decide to be above average, decide to do the very best of you. Do you know who a P.O.O.R person is? P.O.O.R people are those who are "Passing On Opportunities Repeatedly"!"
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"It takes very little to govern good people."
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"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."
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"No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one."
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"Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams."
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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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"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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"Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since."
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"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
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"Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people."
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"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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"Character is the bedrock of leadership; let integrity and honesty be your guiding principles."
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"Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss."
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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 cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything.""
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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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"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
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"There is someone out there who needs just a line or a sentence of your life testimony to believe he or she can also make it. Keeping your testimony away from them is more of suspending their accomplishments till further notice! Come on! Let's learn from you!"
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"Never neglect details. When everyone's mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant."
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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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"You will never be able to go to the east if you follow people who are on the way that leads to the west."
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"If you want to wait till your black hairs turn grey and your teeth start pulling out before you become a leader, you are either too fast to prove your ignorance, or you are too late to know who you are made of."
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"Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet."
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"Leaders find a need and quickly respond to the need."
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"A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving."
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"A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control."
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"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
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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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"We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership."
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"I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders."
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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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"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
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"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."
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"Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating."
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"There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader."
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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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"Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization."
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"You are the center of your life."
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"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
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