Leadership Quotes
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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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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 today requires leaders who are able to tap into the resources of the group—leaders who can release the initiative and leadership in everyone.
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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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Leaders don’t complain about what’s not working. Leaders celebrate what is working and work to amplify it.
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership...
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Leadership requires creating conditions that enable employees to do the kinds of experimentation that entrepreneurship requires.
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Leadership is communicating people's worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it themselves.
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Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.
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Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.
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Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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Communication is the real work of leadership.
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If you hire people just because they can do a job, they'll work for your money, but if they believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.
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Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
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After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing
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Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.
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You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.
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From a leadership perspective the biblical role of staff members is to “equip the saints.” But there should be a place where staff can practice “being a saint.”
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Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.
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I think with the right leadership on both sides and the right president, we can get a lot done.
