Leadership Quotes
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Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
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Change is what political leadership is about.
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That’s leadership: lead by example, lead from the front, inspire people to follow your lead.
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If you give only 80 percent leadership, your dog will give you 80 percent following. And the other 20 percent of the time he will run the show. If you give your dog any opportunity for him to lead you, he will take it.
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I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.
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For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
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People have a reservoir of talent worth discovering. They just have to be given the opportunity to discover it in themselves
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I realize that every time we discuss a job placement and look at a list of both male and female candidates, there's a question that comes up pretty much all the time for the woman: 'Will she know how to assert herself?' It's not meant to be malicious. It's more, 'Will she manage to take leadership of the team you want to entrust to her?'
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The FCC, under my leadership, will stand for the First Amendment.
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Leadership is a choice. It's the choice not to do nothing.
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One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.
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Leadership is accomplishing something through other people that wouldn't have happened if you weren't there. . . Leadership is being able to mobilize ideas and values that energize other people. . . . Leaders develop a story line that engages other people.
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That very aggressive, unapologetic leadership style is needed in Washington, D.C., and I'm not afraid to tackle big issues.
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I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.
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We hope the leadership will find it in their hearts and minds and budgets to bump us up a bit.
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When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.
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Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.
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Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.
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The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb.
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I believe Betsy DeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity that excellent education provides, and I support her nomination as U.S. Secretary of Education.
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Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.
