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Quote: For too long, I equated leadership with a position. I thought leaders were presidents or politicians or celebrities or four-star generals with a horse and sword.
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Author:
Julie Foudy
Category:
Leadership

For too long, I...

Quote: The average American is more focused on leadership than likeability. And more focused on qualifications than quality of speakership.
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Author:
Kellyanne Conway
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Leadership

The average American is...

Quote: Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood.
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Author:
Max De Pree
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Leadership

Above all, leadership is...

Quote: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
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Author:
Nelson Mandela
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Leadership

If you talk to...

Quote: Leadership is about making the right decision and the best decision before, sometimes, it becomes entirely popular.
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Author:
Martin O'Malley
Category:
Leadership

Leadership is about making...

Quote: Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.
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Author:
Russel Honore
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Leadership

Leadership means forming a...

Quote: You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.
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Author:
Thich Nhat Hanh
Category:
Leadership

You who are journalists,...

Quote: In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
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Author:
Sandra Day O'Connor
Category:
Leadership

In order to cultivate...

Quote: The leaders who get the most out of their people are the leaders who care most about their people.
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Author:
Simon Sinek
Category:
Leadership

The leaders who get...

Quote: Washington doesn't have just a spending problem, or just an entitlement problem, or just a taxing problem. We have a leadership problem. Fix that, and the first three problems are solved.
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Author:
Mark McKinnon
Category:
Leadership

Washington doesn't have just...

Quote: A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.
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Author:
Leroy Eimes
Category:
Leadership

A leader is one...

Quote: I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Author:
Maya Angelou
Category:
Leadership

I’ve learned that people...

Quote: The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.
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Author:
Pierre Nanterme
Category:
Leadership

The art of leadership...

Quote: You can have the best ship in the world, but if the captain doesn’t know where to go, he’s going to just drift around and is going to get lost.
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Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Category:
Leadership

You can have the...

Quote: Leadership is about doing the right thing, even if it going against a vast number of naysayers and mediocre people.N. R.
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Author:
Narayana Murthy
Category:
Leadership

Leadership is about doing...

Quote: Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.
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Author:
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Leadership

Treat people as if...

Quote: Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Melinda Gates
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Leadership

Connect deeply with others....

Quote: Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.
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Michael Oxley
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Leadership

Leadership in telecommunications is...

Quote: NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.
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Author:
Juan Williams
Category:
Leadership

NPR editors and journalists...

Quote: I think Caesar is one of the most empathetic characters that I've played. I think that's the key to a successful leadership. Being able to keep your ears open at all times.
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Author:
Andy Serkis
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Leadership

I think Caesar is...

Quote: In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
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Author:
Charles Stanley
Category:
Leadership

In giving us children,...

Quote: I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.
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Andrew Whitworth
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Leadership

I think the way...

Quote: Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.
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Author:
Sherrod Brown
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Leadership

Year after year, President...

Quote: The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
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Ken Olsen
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Leadership

The nicest thing about...

Quote: If people believe you have a plan, that you know where you are going, they will follow you instinctively.
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Author:
Robert Greene
Category:
Leadership

If people believe you...

Quote: Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world.
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Author:
Francis Hesselbein
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Leadership

Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers...

Quote: America is best when we come together with clear leadership, expertise, and the political will to take on difficult challenges and get things done. No one should ever doubt the strength and resilience of our country and our democracy.
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Author:
Jamie Dimon
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Leadership

America is best when...

Quote: A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
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Author:
Henry A. Kissinger
Category:
Leadership

A diamond is a...

Quote: One of the most important things for any leader is to never let anyone else define who you are. And you define who you are. I never think of myself as being a woman CEO of this company. I think of myself as a steward of a great institution.
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Author:
Ginni Rometty
Category:
Leadership

One of the most...

Quote: In this age, I don't care how tactically or operationally brilliant you are: if you cannot create harmony - even vicious harmony - on the battlefield based on trust across service lines, across coalition and national lines, and across civilian/military lines, you need to go home, because your leadership is obsolete.
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Author:
James Mattis
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Leadership

In this age, I...

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