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“If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.”

“Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.”

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Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“Executives run organizations. In business, we need executives who have clarity, people who are in touch with themselves. Then, in leadership and management positions, they can be good role models and leaders. The people I know who have really moved their organizations are scrupulous role models. They are so clear about honesty, integrity, openness, mutual self-respect, dignity for the individual, and creativity, that they don't deviate from these principles at all in their behavior.”

“If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.”

“Put First Things First! These four words cover an entire philosophy which can be applied with profit by every business leader, by every executive and by every employee.”

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Author:Thomas Watson, Jr.

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.”

“Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”

Source: The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.”

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Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

Source: Chronicles of the Cross Collection

“The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.”

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Author:Andre Maurois

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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Author:John Quincy Adams

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

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Author:George S. Patton

“Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.”

“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.”

Source: My American Journey

“A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term.”

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Author:Robert Reich

“The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

Book:Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr

Source: Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”

“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

“Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”

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Book:What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after

Source: What shall we wear to this party?: The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before & after

“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.”

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

“Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future.”

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Author:Paul Orfalea

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”

Source: Managing the Non-Profit Organization

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”

“Barack, like any leader, is human. And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil. Because our challenges are us. The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change? What are we gonna do differently?”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.”

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Book:The Heart of a Leader

Source: The Heart of a Leader

“Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.”

“A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.”

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Author:Faye Wattleton

“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader. A boss says, Go! A leader says, Let's go!”

“Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“America's highest economic need is higher ethical standards -- enforced by strict laws and upheld by responsible business leaders.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“To lead people, walk behind them.”

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Author:Laozi

“How do you know you have won? When the energy is coming the other way and when your people are visibly growing individually and as a group.”

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Author:John Harvey-Jones

“A leader will find it difficult to articulate a coherent vision unless it expresses his core values, his basic identity...one must first embark on the formidable journey of self-discovery in order to create a vision with authentic soul.”

“...in the words of Max DePree: "Management has a lot to do with answers. But leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: 'Who do we intend to be?' Not 'What are we going to do?' but 'Who do we intend to be?'"”

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Book:Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning

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