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Leadership Quotes
"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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"By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world."
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"Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care."
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"I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences."
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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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"It's not about the money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get done."
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"The reward of the general is not a bigger tent but command."
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"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged."
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"In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
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"Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise."
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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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"True Leaders take an Ordinary Person and turn them into an Extraordinary Performer."
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"Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't care how your style yourself or what that chain of office means or who your grandsire was. They follow strength. They follow the man."
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"There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender."
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"Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them."
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"They'll tell you who they think you should be they'll even try to manipulate you into believing it but let me tell you something son, if I listened to who I was supposed to be - this, everything we are and do wouldn't be in existence. Be a leader, find yourself and make a life with it. Those who judge you and try to force the patterns of their beliefs onto you are envious they haven't the strength in themselves to do the same."
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"If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!"
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"To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away."
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"I think our leadership team is a highly accountable leadership team."
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"As Bob Dole found out, you can't keep a positive image while being your party's mouthpiece in Congress. That's why no legislative leader since James Madison has ever been elected president."
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"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
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"You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles. Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide."
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"A wise and frugal Government, which shall retrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
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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 never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea."
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"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything."
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"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments."
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"If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes."
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"Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership."
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"I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together."
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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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"The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble."
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"The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms."
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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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"Leaders are made to be rivers not reservoirs."
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"Leadership comes at a cost.It's called servant leadership."
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"Initiative is doing the right things without being told."
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"The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America."
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"It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow."
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"Powerful leaders use their position of power to empower others."
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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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"The desire we so often hear expressed today for "episcopal figures, "priestly men, "authoritative personalities springs frequently enough from a spiritually sick need for the admiration of men, for the establishment of visible human authority, because the genuine authority of service appears to be so unimpressive."
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"A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others."
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"Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion."
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"Leaders should never look down on the people who put them into power because every leadership requires followers."
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"No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings."
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"Great leaders make an impact with limited resources and inefficient leaders cannot yield good returns even with abundant resources."
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"Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach."
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"During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none."
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