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Leadership Quotes
"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
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"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."
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"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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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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"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
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"We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised."
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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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"And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try to guide the world, we separate ourselves from it.We risk arrogance, Egwene. We always assume we know best, but risk making ourselves unable to fathom the people we claim to serve."
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"Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military."
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"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."
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"The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant."
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"I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office."
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"Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue."
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"A true leader leads his people from the front and if he falls into a pit the people will surely not follow."
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"I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team."
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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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"The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command."
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"A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason."
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"Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister."
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"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
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"Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference."
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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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"I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere."
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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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"The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so."
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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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"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going."
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"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat."
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"The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it."
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"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."
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"I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader."
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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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"Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward."
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"With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited."
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"Empathy is not something we offer to our customers or our employees from nine to five. It is "a second by second, minute by minute service that we owe to everyone if we want to call ourselves a leader"."
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"It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home."
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"In his years in Washington, Senator Kerry has been one vote of a hundred in the United States Senate - and fortunately on matters of national security he was very often in the minority."
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"The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been."
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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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"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
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"We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity."
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"Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates."
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"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
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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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"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"
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"There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned."
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"A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent."
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