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Leadership
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
~Margaret Drabble
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In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
~T. Jefferson
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And when we think we lead, we are most led.
~Lord Byron
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The only real training for leadership is leadership.
~Antony Jay
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where
they are to where they have not been.
~Henry Kissinger
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People are more easily led than driven.
~David Harold Fink
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Leadership should be born out of the understanding
of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
~Marian Anderson
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It is followers who define the leader. Without them,
success is up to chance.
~Thomas Kohntopp
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk
the language of the visionary and the idealist.
~Eric Hoffer
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The very essence of leadership is its purpose. And the purpose of
leadership is to accomplish a task. That is what leadership does–and
what it does is more important than what it is or how it works.
~Colonel Dandridge M. Malone
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character,
give him power.
~Abraham Lincoln
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Where there is no vision, the people perish.
~Proverbs 29:18
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Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and
manipulate people. Inventories can be managed
but people must be lead. ~Ross Perot
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Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like
integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill,
implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure.
~Admiral Arleigh A. Burke
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you
make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~Sandra Carey
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In calm waters many captains are able. It is in a
tempest when true leadership emerges.
~Thomas Kohntopp
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Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good
planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
~Lester R. Bittel
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I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to
conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There
is more improvisation.
~Warren Bennis
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A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is
dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to
make a wake up call.
~Warren Bennis
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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
The last is to say thank you.
~Max DePree
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . The leader works in the open,
and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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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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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally
the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the
essence of leadership.
~John Kenneth Galbraith
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The best example of leadership is leadership
by example.
~Jerry McClain
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Leadership should be more participative than
directive, more enabling than performing.
~Mary D. Poole
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The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
~Ray Kroc
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To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go
forward alone.
~Harry Truman
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams
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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in
other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.
~Walter Lippman
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Knowing one’s followers is essential to becoming an
exceptional leader.
~Thomas Kohntopp
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others,
it is the only thing.
~Albert Schweitzer
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Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and
leave a trail.
~Harold R. McAlindon
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success;
leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning
against the right wall.
~Stephen R. Covey
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A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for
what they can become and to release their energies so
they will try to get there.
~David R. Gergen
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Leadership is action, not position.
~Donald H. McGannon
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He that cannot obey cannot command.
~Benjamin Franklin
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Debate is common about which leadership style is
most effective. The answer, of course, . . . it all depends.
~Thomas Kohntopp
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The led must not be compelled; they must be able
to choose their own leader.
~Albert Einstein
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
~Harold S. Geneen
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others,
but far enough ahead to motivate them.
~John Maxwell
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.
~John Quincy Adams
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The manager asks how and when; the leader asks
what and why.
~Warren Bennis
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The very essence of leadership is that you have
to have a vision.
~Theodore Hesburgh
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A leader takes people where they want to go. A great
leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to
go, but ought to be.
~Rosalynn Carter
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Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn
than when they teach.
~Rosabeth Moss Kantor
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Good leaders must first become good servants.
~Robert Greenleaf
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Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with
people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at
heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call
on our best, not our worst.
~Rachel Maddow
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting
along with people.
~Mohandas K. Gandhi
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The key to successful leadership today is
influence, not authority.
~Kenneth Blanchard
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Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people
out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives
worthy of their best efforts.
~John Gardner
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Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to
others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future.
~Edwin H. Friedman
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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with
them while they do it.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Management is doing things right; leadership is
doing the right things.
~Peter F. Drucker
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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of
getting along with people, of getting things done.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
~Steve Jobs
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