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“If you want to lead a family/team/organization, learn to lead/manage yourself first.”

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Author:Bradford Winters

“And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

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Book:Mysterium coniunctionis

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis

“The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through politics, military force, religion, or personal values won't work in the future like it has in the past.”

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Book:The Coming Jobs War

Source: The Coming Jobs War

“Many people believe that decentralization means loss of control. That's simply not true. You can improve control if you look at control as the control of events and not people. Then, the more people you have controlling events - the more people you have that care about controlling the events, the more people you have proactively working to create favorable events - the more control you have within the organization, by definition.”

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Author:Wilbur L. Creech

“If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.”

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Author:Ingvar Kamprad

“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”

“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

“Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.”

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Author:Abraham Lincoln

“The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.”

Source: What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

“If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”

“Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.”

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Book:Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

Source: Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought

“Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.”

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Book:All's Fair:

Source: All's Fair:

“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.”

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Author:Golda Meir

“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

“If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.”

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Author:Dwight L. Moody

“I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.”

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Book:Confessions of an advertising man

Source: Confessions of an advertising man

“If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.”

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Author:Ross Perot

“If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.”

“You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.”

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Author:Tom Ridge

“I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.”

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Author:Anita Roddick

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.”

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Author:Mitt Romney

“It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

“If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.”

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Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.”

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Author:Babe Ruth

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

“Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.”

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Author:Junior Seau

“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

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Book:Mrs. Warren's Profession

Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.”

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Book:Drive: The Story of My Life

Source: Drive: The Story of My Life

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

“Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.”

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Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.”

“Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. I. Official letters relating to the French war, and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775

“Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.”

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Author:John Wayne

“I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson