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Leadership Quotes
"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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"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim."
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"I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student."
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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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"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
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"Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day."
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"I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living."
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"At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means."
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"Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there."
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"The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence."
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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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"A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example."
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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 forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership."
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"This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president."
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"If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer."
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"Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman."
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"Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families."
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"A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better."
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"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
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"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team."
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"Leaders don't step on toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of giants."
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"Vision and persistence will take you to the top of the leadership mountain, but only humility will keep you there."
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"A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy."
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"Leadership is the act of serving others and has no gender preference."
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"A leader has to 'appear' consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent."
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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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"If the UN and other international multilateral institutions are sending troops and weaponry, now they must begin to fund training and leadership development at the same levels. The new war must start with the quality of beliefs and dreams that are planted into the hearts and minds of school children at a personal level and permeate the driving philosophies of entire societies and communities."
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"Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER."
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"And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership."
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"My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world."
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"A leader is the one who is pulling the sled hardest."
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"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
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"Entrepreneurial Leadership is where your vision, influence and creativity converge; it is where opportunities become limitless and your capabilities boundless."
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."
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"Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership."
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"On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul."
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"America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska."
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"The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects."
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"I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness."
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"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
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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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"It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed."
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"Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest."
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"Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss."
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"The thing I'm most focused on today is, how am I maximizing the effectiveness of the leadership team, and what am I doing to nurture it?"
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