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Leadership Quotes
"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
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"I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask."
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"Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable."
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"I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership."
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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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"If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher."
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"I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone."
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"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
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"You accomplish exactly as much as the people who serve you decide you'll accomplish, and nothing more."
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"Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for a perfect world, even if you can only make it a great world."
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"Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don't die with your books in your mind unpublished!"
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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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"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader."
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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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"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
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"Leadership does not depend on being right."
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"I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control."
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"Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I'll show you a poorly uniformed leader."
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"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
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"It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins."
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"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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"One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions."
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"The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education."
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"Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others."
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"I can guarantee you this, that more pension and benefit reforms which I will consider arbitration reform to be one of them, are things that when they come to my desk, they will be signed."
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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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"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."
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"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."
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"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players."
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"Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena."
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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
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"You know you're a good leader when people follow you out of curiosity."
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"Sharing a clear and concise vision spawns a sense of purpose and direction. It attracts success toward you and helps you build an expanding team."
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"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity."
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"I don't see any dearth of women leaders, it's a question of what we consider a woman leader."
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"This is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups."
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"Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership."
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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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"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."
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"Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching."
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"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
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"I know nothing about technology."
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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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"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."
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"I think it's good to have competition. Now we have a third country that can launch astronauts, so it's good for all of us. It makes us a little bit more competitive and wanting to be the leader."
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