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 Quotes
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Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person.
- Mother Teresa -
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Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.
- Mary D. Poole - |
My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition.
- Indira Gandhi - |
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
- Marie Curie - |
A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
- Arnold H. Glasgow - |
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.
- Stephen R. Covey - |
Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.
- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf - |
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee - |
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
- Thomas Huxley - |
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.
- Edmund Burke -
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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
- Lao Tzu - |
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt -
With the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, not quite 43, became the youngest President in the Nation's history. He brought new excitement and power to the Presidency, as he vigorously led Congress and the American public toward progressive reforms and a strong foreign policy.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
- Dwight Eisenhower - |
Leadership is not magnetic personality - that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" - that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
- Vincent Lombardi - |
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
- Toma Landry - |
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