Eric Ries Quotes
Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Leadership means setting a moral tone.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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I totally disagree with the premise that al Qaeda is on the path to defeat. Quite the contrary, al Qaeda has deliberately decentralized its operations - not because of the relentless attacks we have had on its national leadership in Pakistan, but because its strategic objective is to dominate and control Muslim countries in the region.
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Partisanship is not necessarily a bad thing. It leads to new leadership and new opportunities.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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History has placed a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of this country's leadership, namely the responsibility of moving our country away from the current course of conflict and confrontation... The hope of millions of South Africans is fixed on us. The future of southern Africa depends on us. We dare not waver or fail.
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The man of Hope, Barack Obama. America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
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I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.
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When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.
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Now that I'm 50 and respectably settled in New England and markedly happier and more contented than I was in my youth, I modestly hope there's time to realize some of my youthful goals before I croak, but I'll take what I can get.
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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
