Leader Quotes
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Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.
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The two pillars of winning the presidency are being a strong leader and being someone who understands us and our problems.
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George Mitchell was a very good leader, and we were more than satisfied with his leadership. And I know the guys were jealous.
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Employees who can't trust their leader to be vulnerable are not going to be vulnerable and build trust with one another.
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In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.
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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.
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I hadn't realized until this week that in Moses' youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.
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No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.
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You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less.
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The Dalai Lama is just a temporal leader of Tibet.
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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
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Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
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I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
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New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
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One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that leader is the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace. He's a Vietnamese monk. He was nominated for a Peace Prize by Dr. Martin Luther King.
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People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?
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Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.
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We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
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Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.
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I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.
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Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values.
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We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.
