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• Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Great Leader

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• The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

  Chris Bosh

  People, Teammate, Stereotype

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• Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

  Chris Bosh

  Peers, Looks, Tone

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• Leaders are made by the situations they are involved in. I think that some rise to the occasion and some do not.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Made, Situation

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• This is a dream for me, it really is, to be the leader of a staff going into the season.

  Scott Kazmir

  Dream, Staff, Seasons

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• I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

  Lamar Odom

  Natural, Felt

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• Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

  Peter Drucker

  Hype, Three, Mao

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• The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Leadership, Boss

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (2009). “The Essential Bennis”, p.210, John Wiley & Sons

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• As a world leader who refused to accept injustice, Nelson Mandela's courage helped change our entire world

  Salil Shetty

  World, Injustice, Accepting

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• Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

  Leonard Pitts

  Helping, Prime, Greater Good

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• Failing once doesn't make you a failure. One difference between a successful person and an average person is how much criticism they can take, the average person cannot take much criticism and that's why they fail to be leaders and they do remain average all their lives

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Successful, Average, Differences

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• Leaders are less interested in their position and more interested in their positive impact on others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Impact, Positive Impact, Position

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Tyrants, People

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• The most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Successful, Common Purpose, Desire

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• For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

  Tom DeLay

  Party, Ideas, Faults

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• Father Jude Nnorom also criticized his church leaders, saying the simple lifestyle followed by Pope Francis should challenge African bishops to ask themselves.

  Sylvia Poggioli

  Father, Simple, Challenges

  "Pope Francis To Focus On Social Justice Issues During Trip To Africa". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. November 24, 2015.

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• The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.

  Robert E. Murray

  Simple, Roles, Strategy

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• Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do the math and calculate return on investment properly. The issues are communication and understanding. All of what typically would've been called the 'soft stuff.' You have to be authentic. You have to be dialed into the soft stuff.

  Douglas Conant

  Communication, Math, Issues

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• I don't have any problem with Mao or Stalin or the Vietnamese leaders or certainly Fidel locking up people they see as dangerous. Because so often, dissidence has been used by the greater powers to undermine a people's revolution.

  Lynne Stewart

  People, Revolution, Problem

  "Counter-Intelligent". Interview with Susie Day, monthlyreview.org. November 1, 2002.

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• Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Real, Fool, Talent

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• There's something unique and different that makes a leader, and it's not about creativity or courage or integrity.... A leader's job is to rally people toward a better future.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Integrity, Creativity

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• Every human endeavor has leaders and followers, and your job as a leader is to inspire.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, Inspire, Followers

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• Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves, instead they have the interests of the institution, department, or team and its constituents at heart. Being a servant may not be what many leaders had in mind when they chose to take responsibility for the vision and direction of their organization or team - but serving others is the most glorious and rewarding of all leadership tasks.

  James M. Kouzes

  Team, Responsibility, Heart

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• Often times the best military leaders were soldiers.

  Jim Caviezel

  Military, Soldier, Best Military

  "Jim Caviezel Talks WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL, His Passion For Filmmaking and Why He'll Never Direct An Episode Of PERSON OF INTEREST". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. August 21, 2014.

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• The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what our political and military leaders were telling us. They were straight forward documentary images. A powerful indictment of the war, of how cruel and unjust it was. When I finally decided what to do with my life, it was to follow in that tradition.

  James Nachtwey

  Powerful, Military, War

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