Leader Quotes - Page 18

• As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.

  Talib Kweli

  Artist, Fans, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The climate change plan set out a few days ago by federal NDP leader Tom Mulcair will get us there, which is why I strongly support it.

  Rachel Notley

  Support, Climate, Plans

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• Poets are band leaders who have failed.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Band, Poet

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.52, Heinemann

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• If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

  William Schutz

  Groups, Able, Weak

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• Effective leaders let people discover things for themselves.

  Jean Illsley Clarke

  Leadership, People

  Jean Illsley Clarke (1984). “Who, Me Lead a Group?”, p.14, Parenting Press, Inc.

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• A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stupid, Writing, Ideas

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• I would love to be a corporate leader.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Corporate

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• Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Religious, Needs

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• The role of the opposition leader differs from that of the chancellor. If this government is to be successful, I have to take the emotional state of all partners into account. Besides, the Social Democrats didn't exactly present me with the motto "Let us dare to have more freedom" on a silver platter.

  Angela Merkel

  Successful, Emotional, Silver Platter

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• There are many examples of female leaders who are not afraid to take responsibility and openly face the challenges in the worst situations.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Responsibility, Worst Situation, Challenges

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• During conflicts and tense situations, women often work in a more collaborative way, include a larger variety of viewpoints, and function more frequently outside traditional hierarchical means. Women leaders often take a consolidated and reconciliatory position in the society.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Mean, Viewpoints, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The main challenge is technology and that's something I really push and work closely with Adidas on. They're real leaders in sports performance; always trying to push that further and further and get the best technology they can. That takes time and has rigorous testing, it's very laborious, but it's also very rewarding. You get to work with fantastic athletes, and that's a fantastic thing that has nothing to do with my day job in ready-to-wear.

  Stella McCartney

  Sports, Jobs, Real

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.

  Bill Hybels

  People, Giving, Challenges

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• When [Vladimir] Putin, a former lieutenant-colonel in the KGB, became Russia's president on December 31, 1999 - eight years after the failed coup attempt against (then Soviet leader Mikhail) Gorbachev, and eight years after the people had torn down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the hated founder of the KGB, in Moscow - it was admittedly a shock. Nevertheless, I decided to give Putin a chance. He seemed dynamic and capable of learning. But I had to bury my hopes after just a few months. He proved to be an autocrat - and, because the West let him do as he pleased, he became a dictator.

  Garry Kasparov

  Kgb, Russia, Eight

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Strong people do not need strong leaders.

  Ella Baker

  Strong, People, Needs

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• Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Names, Facts, Spirituality

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• Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Change, Religious, Men

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• Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Simple, Ignorant Masses

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• I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Would Be, Four

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• To bring the worst of the worst terrorists inside the United States would be cause for great danger and regret in the years to come. It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness, and would make the American people less safe.

  Dick Cheney

  Opportunity, People, Weakness

  "Obama, Cheney: Different Views On Protecting U.S". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 22, 2009.

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• When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

  Gloria Gaither

  Biblical, Years, Two

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• One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.

  John W. Gardner

  Communication, Two, Essentials

  JOHN W. GARDNER (1986). “LEADERSHIP PAPERS/3: THE HEART OF THE MATTER LEADER-CONSTITUENT INTERACTION”

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• The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, et al. ... are as fanatic and as fundamentalist as Osama bin Laden.

  William Blum

  Mafia, Empires, Als

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• Our politicians have sacrificed their principles on the altar of special interests; our corporate leaders have sacrificed their integrity on the altar of profits; and our media watchdogs have sacrificed the voice of dissent on the altar of audience competition.

  Cornel West

  Integrity, Media, Voice

  Cornel West (2005). “Democracy matters: winning the fight against imperialism”, Penguin Classics

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• The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

  John W. Gardner

  Decision, Style, Supportive

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