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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
– Henry Miller
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
– J. P. Morgan
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
– J. P. Morgan
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
– Ferdinand E. Marcos
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
– John C. Maxwell
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People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
– John C. Maxwell
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Get the best people and train them well.
– Scott McNealy
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
– Ralph Nader
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Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.
– John Naisbitt
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Leaders grasp nettles.
– David M. Ogilvy
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The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
– Ken Olsen
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To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
– Aristotle Onassis
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Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.
– Bill Owens
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Leadership is an active role; 'lead' is a verb. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry.
– Bill Owens
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Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
– Bill Owens
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My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.
– Sonny Perdue
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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
– Tom Peters
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Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
– Colin Powell
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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
– Thomas J. Peters
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It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
– William Pollard
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You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
– Tom Ridge
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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.
– Bob Riley
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Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
– Jim Rohn
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Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
– Jim Rohn
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
– Theodore Roosevelt
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Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.
– Donald H. Rumsfeld
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We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
– David Vitter
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High expectations are the key to everything.
– Sam Walton
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
– Sam Walton
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You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.
– An Wang
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Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
– George F. Will
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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.
– Woodrow Wilson
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
– J. Donald Walters
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
– Faye Wattleton
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Education is the mother of leadership.
– Wendell L. Willkie
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Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.
– Gary Wills
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The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, followers and goals make up the three equally necessary supports for leadership.
– Gary Wills
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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
– Arnold H. Glasgow
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
– Henry J. Kaiser
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
– Steve Jobs
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The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
– Casey Stengel
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You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress.
– Steve Wynn
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
– Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
– Donald Trump
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
– Major Owens
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You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
– Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
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You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.
– Angela Davis
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Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.
– David Cameron
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Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
– Sherrod Brown
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Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.
– Terry Semel
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World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.
– Neil Sheehan
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With King Abdullah's leadership and his people's trust he can keep the kingdom stable and secure in all its affairs.
– Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
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Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.
– Jeff Landry
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Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk?
– Rahm Emanuel
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While Mayor Daley surprised me today with his decision to not run for reelection, I have never been surprised by his leadership, dedication and tireless work on behalf of the city and the people of Chicago.
– Rahm Emanuel
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Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.
– Lisa Murkowski
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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When President Obama was in the Senate, when he was a U.S. senator, he voted against raising the debt ceiling. And he said it was a lack of leadership that had brought us to this point.
– Cathy McMorris
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Whatever ought to be, can be.
– James Rouse
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What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?
– Paul Ryan
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What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.
– Paul Ryan
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
– Vicente Fox
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What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.
– Bob Iger
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What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behind the veneer of chest-beating. We all saw the consequences of having terrible government leadership.
– Susan Faludi
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Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.
– Robert M. Gates
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
– Iain Duncan Smith
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We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.
– Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.
– Roger Goodell
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We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
– Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'
– Rob Portman
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We should see the leadership from the White House setting dates certain for certain goals of achieving greater alliance on alternative and renewable energy sources, but we are not.
– Ron Kind
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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.
– Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
– Condoleezza Rice
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We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
– Peter Chernin
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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
– Wilson Greatbatch
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We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.
– Randy Hultgren
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We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
– Rick Larsen
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We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.
– Tom Coburn
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We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
– Paul Ryan
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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.
– George Soros
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
– Yahoo Serious
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We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
– Marco Rubio
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We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.
– Christiane Amanpour
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We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.
– Theodore C. Sorensen
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We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.
– Atifete Jahjaga
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We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.
– Martin O'Malley
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We have a country to turn around. This week you will nominate the most experienced executive to seek the presidency in 60 years in Mitt Romney. He has no illusions about what makes America great, and he doesn't confuse the presidency with celebrity, or loftiness with leadership.
– Artur Davis
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We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
– Neil Sheehan
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We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
– Barack Obama
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Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.
– Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
– Jose Serrano
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Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
– Marty Meehan
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Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
– Steve Daines
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
– Anne M. Mulcahy
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To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.
– John H. Johnson
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.
– Ibrahim Babangida
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To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.
– Mike DeWine
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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.
– Nguyen Cao Ky
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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.
– John Dingell
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