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Leadership Quotes
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
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"A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them."
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"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."
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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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"You have to make the right choice in order to have the right to change the world... Take hold of this chance right away!"
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"Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you."
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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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"The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull."
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"We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership."
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"President Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government."
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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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"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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"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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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
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"I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
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"Malicious or not, strong leaders always attracted followers."
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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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"Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading."
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"I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet."
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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 chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."
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"Leadership does not depend on being right."
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"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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"I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires."
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"The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it."
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"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better."
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"The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it."
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"In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia."
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"My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery."
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"The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength."
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
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"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
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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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"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
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"Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture."
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"And whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood."
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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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"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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"The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there."
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"If your vision is great, you become great."
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"Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table."
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"And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!"
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"I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area."
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"Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority."
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"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."
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"Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank."
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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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"But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great."
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