Leadership Quotes
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As a former minority leader who became the first Republican Speaker of the House in Florida since Reconstruction, I know that leadership is not an easy task.
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Turnaround or growth, it's getting your people focused on the goal that is still the job of leadership.
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If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.
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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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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.
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Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
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But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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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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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and what a person does- competence.
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Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.
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America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.
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Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
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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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I watched my parents in their leadership callings in the Church and the community. We just grew up knowing that we should serve and do whatever we could do to make things grow.
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My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
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We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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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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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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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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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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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.
