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“It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.”

Looks Hard Leadership Leader Ears Look Up

Book:Fuzzify!: Borenwords and strategies for bureaucratic success

Source: Fuzzify!: Borenwords and strategies for bureaucratic success

“Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.”

Hard Dream Action Turns Energy Waiting Goal Effort Responsibility Leader Plans Willing Hard Work Tomorrow Taking Responsibility Executing Perspiration

Author:Denis Waitley

“Before a community can prosper, the people must believe in their leaders. They must know that at the core of every decision is careful planning, hard work, and unbending integrity rather than partisanship or self-gain. They must trust that the awesome power of government is not being abused.”

People Knows Believe Self Hard Government Community Decision Leader Hard Work Integrity Gains Careful Core Planning Partisanship Careful Planning

Author:Linda Lingle

“Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.”

People Hard Reality Deals Leader Illusion Pleasant

Author:Orrin Woodward

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.”

“Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.”

People Real Hard Asks Leader Comfort Manage Zone Distress Comfort Zone Hard Questions

Author:Alan Hirsch

“My own take on it is that government will never adequately represent every person in the country. It can't. It's not possible. It's a multicultural, multifaceted society in which we live. The country, I think, thrives because it's willing to embrace many ideas at the same time, but once a decision is made you will be unpopular with many people. The business of our political leaders is to go ahead and make a decision and let the chips fall where they may. That's a very hard thing to do.”

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Author:Kelsey Grammer

“The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success”

Hard Enjoy Leader Hard Work Benefits Beats Gains Brows

Author:Simon Sinek

“I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.”

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Author:Ann Richards

“Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.”

People Way Said Different Hard Difficult Leader Hearing Different Ways Aggressive Passive Feedback Different Peoples Passive Aggressive

Author:Scott Weiss

“The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.”

Way Hard Political Religious Leader Doubt Movement Position Authority Casts Revolutionary Rising Islamic Regimes Academic Tides Competence Khomeini

Author:Yousef Saanei

“Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.”

Needs Hard Purpose Order Winning Half Leader Focus Inspire Enthusiasm Mentality Hearted Half Hearted Hard To Trust Sporadic

Author:Sebastian Coe

“I believe work is good. There is dignity in work. I also believe that a hard-work ethic forges strong leaders.”

Believe Hard Strong I Believe Leader Hard Work Ethics Dignity Work Ethic Strong Leaders Strong Work Ethic

Book:Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life

Source: Leading with the Heart: Coach K's Successful Strategies for Basketball, Business, and Life

“John McCutcheon is not only one of the best musicians in the USA, but also a great singer, songwriter, and song leader. And not just incidentally, he is committed to helping hard-working people everywhere to organize and push this world in a better direction.”

People World Hard Helping Song Leader This World Hard Work Musician Committed Singers Usa Songwriters Organize Singer Songwriters

Author:Pete Seeger

“Steve held us to a high standard. He told us he was going to when we first met him at the USA camp. He's been a great leader. I mean, the guy always keeps his composure. He has an amazing mind for the game, and man, Steve, I'm just proud of him. The way he's balanced everybody and let us know what our roles are, he's been great for us. Him and the whole coaching staff. We all deserve this together, we work so hard.”

“The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.”

Hard Strong Easy Leader Achieve Hard Work Tasks Productive Framework

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed.”

World May Hard Motivational Success Leadership Common Secret Leader This World Hard Work Grateful Finals Be Grateful Suggestions Commonplace Secret To Success

Author:Toyotomi Hideyoshi

“The next Prime Minister walking through that door will be me or Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, you can choose an economy that grows, that creates jobs, that generates the money to ensure a properly funded and improving National Health Service ... and a government that will cut taxes for 30 million hard-working people ... or you can choose the economic chaos of Ed Miliband's Britain.”

“I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.”

Thinking Want Feels Hard Goal Ability Quality Leader Careers Focus Hard Work Female Males Missions Noise Nonsense Interfere Goal Oriented

Author:Anne Sweeney

“We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.”

People Kind Doe Has Beens Hard Seems Suffering Turns Leader Admire Bitter Indispensable

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Great leaders must be able to realize when something isn’t working-no matter how hard they’ve worked to make it succeed.”

Matter Hard Able Realizing Leader Succeed Great Leader

Author:Jim Rohn

“Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the global market share leader in cell phones. Maybe it will work out, but this is hard to envision great success in the area coming on the heels of so much disappointment in missed opportunity in this important and visible category.”

“I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.”

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Author:Matt Holliday

“By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.”

Knows Want Two Hard Running Challenges Leader Position Instinct Intellect Ongoing

Author:Bill Walsh

“Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.”

May Hard Happens Ability Common Leader Things Happen Characteristics Make Things Happen

Book:The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership

Source: The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership

“It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.”

World Self Hard Life Is Leader Journey This World Baby Survival Servant Life Is A Journey Servant Leader Survival Mode

Author:Ken Blanchard

“If you are a leader, the true measure of your success is not getting people to work. It's not getting people to work hard. It is getting people to work hard together. That takes commitment.”

People Ifs Hard Together Leader Hard Work Commitment Working It

Book:Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership

Source: Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership

“Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].”

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Author:Ishmael Reed