Leadership Quotes
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I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
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Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk - especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering an adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
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The effective leader recognizes that she is more dependent on her people than they are on her. Walk softly.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.
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It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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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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California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.
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Education is the mother of leadership.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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Honesty is the axis on which leadership spins.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.
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Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
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Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.
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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 exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
