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“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”

“Remember teamwork begins by building trust. And the only way to do that is to overcome our need for invulnerability.”

“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.”

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

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

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”

“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”

“High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”

“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?”

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”