Leader Quotes
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On March 8 a poll showed Hart 9 points ahead of Reagan. So perhaps 60 million Americans, 55 million of whom had not heard of Hart a month ago, have suddenly decided thay want him to be leader of the free world. The public mind is not just soft wax, it's runny.
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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.
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A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.
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Americans ... want leaders who share their values, understand their needs, and respect their intelligence.
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You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
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People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results.
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A good leader needs to know how to follow.
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Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
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Hopefully, Serbia's political leaders will not only recognize the seriousness which we attach to this case but also understand that it is in Serbia's interest to let justice work to sever the ties with the Milosevic past that have held the country back from a Europe where it otherwise belongs.
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A company and leaders of the company have the responsibility of the precious lives of all the human beings that work there.
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You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.
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Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.
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The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.
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A leader, first and foremost, is human. Only when we have the strength to show our vulnerability can we truly lead.
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The British prime minister will want to have a strong and positive relationship with European leaders always.
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If you make a mistake, don’t spend precious time and energy trying to deny it or point the finger at someone else. Be a leader and own it, then spend your time and energy fixing the problem. As I’ve already noted, start-ups often fail because founders want to be seen as the smartest person in the room, which means not being wrong. Making a mistake is going to happen. None of us is perfect. But the difference between success and failure is how you handle that mistake.
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When people look at the ratings and they're bad, I think people can get an idea of "Why would they even make the show?" And to a certain extent, original programming for any network is a loss leader to try to get you to keep the channel on your cable package.
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Your first and foremost job as a LEADER is to take charge of your own energy.
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One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
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Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.
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The quality of a leader cannot be judged by the answers he gives, but by the questions he asks.
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Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.
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I would rather say whoa to a leader than gittie up.
