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“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.”

Source: Powerplay: what really happened at Bendix

“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.”

“Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.”

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Book:Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Source: Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

“It took a course from me for the Democratic leadership to realize we have an electoral college. 'But we got the popular vote!' Well you can take the MTA from Dorchester to Brookline. That's how far it'll get you.”

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Author:Ira Carmen

“The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.”

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Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.”

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Book:The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Source: The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.”

“In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.”

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Author:Wangari Maathai

“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.”