Leader Quotes - Page 11

• I think our nation faces enormous challenges, and we need leaders who are willing to tell the truth and do the right thing regardless of the consequences.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Challenges, Needs

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Fate, Men

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• If subordinates, or people in general, know that they genuinely have easy access to their leader, they'll tend to view the leader in a more positive, trustworthy light.

  Donald T. Phillips

  Motivational, Light, Views

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• Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Eugenics, Mind, Important

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• Your leadership depends on you. You can only be a great leader when you can lead yourself well first.

  Richard Norris

  Great Leader

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• If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Focus, Needs

  Twitter post from Jun 27, 2013

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• It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fate, Errors, Talking

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

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• Most leaders don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

  Peter Drucker

  Needs

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• Organizations exist to make people's strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. And this is the work of effective leaders.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Motivational, Organization, People

  Frances Hesselbein (2002). “Hesselbein on Leadership”, p.79, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

  Harlan Cleveland

  Inspirational, Leadership, Choices

  Harlan Cleveland (1985). “The knowledge executive: leadership in an information society”, E P Dutton

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• The greatest leader in the world could never win a campaign unless he understood the men he had to lead.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.

  Thomas Cech

  Thinking, Research, Scientist

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• The leader sees things through the eyes of his followers. He puts himself in their shoes and helps them make their dreams come true. The leader does not say, "Get going!" Instead he says, "Let's go!" and leads the way. He does not walk behind with a whip; he is out in front with a banner.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Motivational, Dream, Eye

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• It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.

  Thomas Sowell

  Organization, People, Likes

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I know I touch a lot of people. I don't call myself a role model. But I am a leader. Leaders are always watched by team members & outsiders

  Spoken Reasons

  Team, People, Role Models

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• You cannot attain #‎ mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do

  Roger McDonald

  Sheep, Mastery, Tradition

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• A leader should care way more about HOW people are doing rather than HOW they are doing their work.

  Perry Noble

  People, Care, Way

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• More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, People, Needs

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• Your goal as a leader isn't to be indispensable to the people you lead; it is to leave your people something that is indispensable to them.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, People, Goal

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.248, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Destiny, Shapes

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you're capable of being. Never stop learning.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Growth, Becoming

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.253, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

  Jay Leno

  Stars, Majority Leader, Years

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• Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

  Guy Burgess

  Change, Two Sides, Evil

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• I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic.

  Michael Jackson

  People, Magic, Fields

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 21, 2013

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• If you are in a leadership position, do not rely on your title to convince people to follow you. Build relationships. Win people over. Do that and you will never be a lonely leader.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Lonely, Winning

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.6, Thomas Nelson Inc

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