Leadership Quotes
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I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids; rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual.
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The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.
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Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams.
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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I believe "Leadership" is creating the environment for the greatness in people to emerge.
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What I measure the most is the fact that we are a much more durable, sustainable company that can bob and weave with whatever we meet. And that is the true measure of success for me in terms of leadership.
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Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development.
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Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.
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We tend to select top men for their character and capacity, then overload them according to their willingness.
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Leadership is like parenting.
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We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.
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I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.
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I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."
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She's learned to listen more and improve different aspects of her game. I'm most proud that she's improved her sportsmanship, her demeanor on the field. She's still working on leadership and that's improving.
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You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.
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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.
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Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
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They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.
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Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
