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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.”

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Author:Norman Schwarzkopf

“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.”

“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

Source: Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle

“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 Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.”

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Author:Davis McCaughey

“... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.”

“You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.”

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Author:Graeme Samuel

“If you are given a public responsibility, you have to listen, weigh up all the issues, but ultimately you have to form a view of what you genuinely think is in the public interest... put the public interest above the vested interest.”

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Author:Graeme Samuel

“One of the most important responsibilities of leaders in any setting - including business organisations - is to tell us our own story; to explain us to ourselves; to help us weave some meaning and purpose into the fabric of our lives; to illuminate our understanding of where we have come from; to paint word pictures of our future onto which we can project our aspirations.”

“It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.”

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Author:Janet Holmes a Court

“Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.”

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Book:Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007

Source: Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007

“Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and depressed, fewer people addicted to things that drag us down... Because as we invest in those that do it tough, we will see more Australians taking pride in themselves, having realisable dreams and aspirations and making their own positive contribution to the world's greatest nation.”

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Author:Simon McKeon

“If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system”

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Author:Lloyd Dobyns

“Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.”

Source: The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense

“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”

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Author:Peter Drucker