Leader Quotes - Page 27

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

  Bill Hybels

  People, Giving, Challenges

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• The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vigor, Social, Mark

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• What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

  Doug Stanhope

  What If, Doe, Want

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• All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.

  John W. Gardner

  Communication, Play, Two

  John W. Gardner (1988). “Leadership: An Overview”

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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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• 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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• I would love to be a corporate leader.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Corporate

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• It's time for our business and political leaders to help redefine morality beyond sex, drugs, and rock and roll to include lying, hypocrisy, and callous indifference to those in need.

  Arianna Huffington

  Sex, Lying, Rocks

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.270, Crown

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• Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so.

  Al Gore

  Spiritual, Art, Teaching

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• A political leader worthy of assassination

  Irving Layton

  Political, Worthy, Assassination

  The Whole Bloody Bird "Obs II" (1969)

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• Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.

  John W. Gardner

  Moving, Style, Elements

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• Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

  John W. Gardner

  Thinking, Groups, Purpose

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

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• You don't need to compromise your standards to be accepted by good friends. The more obedient you arethe more the Lord can help you overcome temptation. You can also help others because they will feel your strength. Let them know about your standards by consistently living themNo one intends to make serious mistakes. They come when you compromise your standards to be more accepted by others. You be the strong one. You be the leader. Choose good friends and resist peer pressure together.

  Richard G. Scott

  Strong, Mistake, Good Friend

  "Making the Right Choices". Richard G. Scott's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 1994.

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• King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Kings, Men

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• Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

  Bill Gates

  Problem, Approach

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• Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

  Laozi

  Deep Love, World, Courageous

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• Leadership (according to John Sculley) revolves around vision, ideas, direction, and has more to do with inspiring people as to direction and goals than with day-to-day implementation. A leader must be able to leverage more than his own capabilities. He must be capable of inspiring other people to do things without actually sitting on top of them with a checklist.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Ideas, People, Goal

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• Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

  Max Weber

  Charisma, Knows

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• Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Medicine, Type

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• Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he has himself selected and, likewise, to give them credit, publicly, for their triumphs.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Mistake, Humility, Responsibility

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• To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Return, Prophet, Standards

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• In the earlier days of history, kings and leaders went to the battlefield with their men; but today, those who determine that a nation will go to war remain safely behind. The next time leaders talk of warring, all the people should get together and send those leaders to the front lines. Give them a big arena with wonderfully effective ammunition, and the war will be finished in a day

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Kings, War, Men

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• To take full advantage of the potential in e-business, leaders must lead differently, and people must work together differently. Let's call this new way of working e-culture-the human side of the global information era, the heart and soul of the new economy.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Heart, People, Soul

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