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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘leadership’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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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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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” -John F. Kennedy
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“But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.” -William Julius Wilson
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“Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.” -Abdul Kalam
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“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.” -Mwai Kibaki
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“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” -David Joseph Schwartz
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“I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual I’m too abstract I think too much.” -Newt Gingrich
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“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.” -J. Paul Getty
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“Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.” -E. Joseph Cossman
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“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” -Margaret Fuller
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“My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.” -Duke Ellington
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“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.” -Michael Eisner
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“The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.” -Charles de Gaulle
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“Get the best people and train them well.” -Scott McNealy
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“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.” -John C. Maxwell
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“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.” -Andrew Carnegie
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“It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.” -Henry A. Kissinger
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“Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” -Tom Peters
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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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“Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.” -Bo Bennett
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“There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.” -Chuck Tanner
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“Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has an idea. It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.” -Nolan Bushnell
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“Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.” -Tom Hopkins
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“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” -Roy E. Disney
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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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“The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.” -Vaclav Havel
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“No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.” -W. Clement Stone
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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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“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.” -William James
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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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“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?” -Donald Trump
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“High expectations are the key to everything.” -Sam Walton
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“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” -Bill Bradley
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“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one’s self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” -Thomas Szasz
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“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.” -Tony Blair
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“Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.” -John D. Rockefeller
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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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“A leader is a dealer in hope.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.” -Thomas Sowell
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“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.” -Sun Tzu
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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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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” -Paul Hawken
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“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” -Nelson Mandela
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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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“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” -Steve Jobs
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“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” -Max Lucado
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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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“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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