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Leadership Quotes
"You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too."
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"Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation."
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"When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone."
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"The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire."
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"At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage."
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"Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done."
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"Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you."
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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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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
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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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"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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"In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British."
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"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."
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"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
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"Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive."
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"Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not."
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"Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation."
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"Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition."
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"Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true."
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"I want to change history, do something important in my life, and influence individuals like we have with millions of small businesses on Alibaba. Then they love and respect you because you made their life important."
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"Admitting the weighty problems and staggering disappointments, Christianity affirms that God is able to give us the power to meet them. He is able to give us inner equilibrium to stand tall amid the trials and burdens of life. He is able to provide inner peace amid our outer storms."
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"Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure."
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"I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy."
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"To become a leader through one's merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities]."
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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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"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
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"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"
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"Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids."
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"It was, however, in the interest of Osama bin Laden for us to destroy a secular Arab leader; it was very much in the interest of the Iranians because they wanted revenge against Saddam Hussein for Iraq's invasion in 1980."
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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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"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
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"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here."
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"But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement."
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"Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it."
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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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"One of the most important qualities of a president is the ability to inspire, to bring people together for the common good."
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"Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man."
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"When you lead the wise, walk behind them. When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them. When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them."
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"The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought."
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"The true leaders of our time, the legends of this world or the movers of the movers are the towering figures that are blessed with beautiful minds, receptive ears and directing voices. They are the ones we should emulate in life."
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"People are attracted to leaders who are skillful in motivating them to become more, do more, and achieve more..."
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"Those who are not true leaders or elders will just affirm people at their own immature level, and of course immature people will love them and elect them for being equally immature. You can fill in the names here with your own political disaster story. But just remember, there is a symbiosis between immature groups and immature leaders, I am afraid, which is why both Plato and Jefferson said democracy was not really the best form of government. It is the safest. A truly wise monarch would probably be the most effective at getting things done."
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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 man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control."
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"Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love for what you are doing, you will never give up."
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"It is not the best for us to lay embago on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles we face, no crown will we win. No temptations exist, no conquerors are known."
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