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The chief executive who knows his strengths and weaknesses as a leader is likely to be far more effective than the one who remains blind to them. He also is on the road to humility -- that priceless attitude of openness to life that can help a manager absorb mistakes, failures, or personal shortcomings.
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A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.
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Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
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Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively.
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The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
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If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.
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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.
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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
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The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
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Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.
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If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
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Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got. Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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Men are lead by trifles.
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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
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An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
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Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.
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When we think we lead we are most led.
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The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
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If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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Leaders don't inflict pain -- they share pain.
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Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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No affection and a great brain, these are the people to command the world.
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I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
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Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist.
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led
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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
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Who has not served cannot command.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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There are no office hours for leaders.
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.
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Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.
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There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
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The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
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In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
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One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
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Morale is faith in the man at the top.
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Leaders are readers.
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
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Keep cool and you will command everyone.
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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
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The highest of distinctions is service to others.
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
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