Leader Quotes - Page 32

• There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart

  will.i.am

  Heart, Followers

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• Recruit entrepreneurial leaders and give them freedom to determine the best path to achieving their objectives. On the other hand, individuals must commit fully to the system you use and be held rigorously accountable for their objectives. You give them freedom, but freedom within a framework.

  James C. Collins

  Hands, Giving, Use

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• Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence

  Tony Robbins

  Skills, Numbers, Influence

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• Leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods express a preference for "natural" methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.

  Richard Dawkins

  Population, Followers, Use

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.144, Oxford University Press

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• Ganguly is a very good leader. His return to the field brings a spring in the steps of the Indians. He is a great player.

  Ricky Ponting

  Spring, Player, Fields

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• While great leaders may be as rare as great runners, great actors, or great painters, everyone has leadership potential, just as everyone has some ability at running, acting, and painting.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Running, Acting, Actors

  Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”

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• Many council leaders and members will be surprised to discover how much more focused their work will become when they examine it through the lens of saving souls through the mission of the Church.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Soul, Church, Lenses

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• Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Heart, Winning

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• Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom

  May, Common, Characteristics

  Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom, Robert C. Larson (1988). “The best of Ted Engstrom on personal excellence and leadership”, Here's Life Pub

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• The very first task of leadership is to set the vision for the organization. If you don't set the vision, you're not the leader.

  Rick Warren

  Organization, Vision, Tasks

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• We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

  Nelson Mandela

  Reality, Years, Achievement

  "Foes pay tribute as Mandela begins long goodbye" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 1999.

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• House GOP Leader John Boehner on Monday rightly sounded the alarm over billions in stimulus tax dollars that could potentially go to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). But the Republican leadership has only scratched the surface over what amounts to a bottomless slush fund for a bigger coalition of housing entitlement thugs.

  Michelle Malkin

  Monday, Thug, Organization

  "Stimulus Slush Fund for Entitlement Thugs" by Michelle Malkin, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 30, 2009.

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• The second term of the Bush administration and first five years of the Obama presidency have been devoted to codifying and institutionalizing the vast and unchecked powers that are typically vested in leaders in the name of war. Those powers of secrecy, indefinite detention, mass surveillance, and due-process-free assassination are not going anywhere. They are now permanent fixtures not only in the US political system but, worse, in American political culture.

  Glenn Greenwald

  War, Years, Names

  "Washington gets explicit: its 'war on terror' is permanent". www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2013.

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• You can offer the ability to citizens to choose from one of the two parties and elect their leaders as much as you want. But "democracy" is an illusion - a sham - if the most significant acts taken by those leaders are kept concealed from the citizenry.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Party, Taken, Two

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• A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Average, Everyday, Motivated

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• Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  People, Church, Tasks

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1972). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.23, Zondervan

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• Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation.

  Thomas Frank

  Typical, Campaigns, Hurricanes

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• In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.

  Ricardo Sanchez

  Senior, Military, Men

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• A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

  Tony Abbott

  Doors, Midnight, Way

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• Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

  James Altucher

  Mean, Past, Kind

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2018

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• Often, we feel that we need a leader outside of ourselves -a Buddha, a Gandhi, or a Martin Luther King, Jr.- to show the way. But we have the Buddha inside of us. We have Gandhi and King inside of us as well. We are interconnected. We don't need to wait for some other person to be the change we want to see in the world

  Nhat Hanh

  Kings, Waiting, Needs

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• Highly successful leaders ignore conventional wisdom and take chances. Their stories inevitably include a defining moment or key decision when they
  took a significant risk and thereby experienced a breakthrough.

  Larry Osborne

  Successful, Keys, Decision

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• Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Insecure, Thinking, Self

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It is a shortsighted priesthood leader who doesn't see the value in calling upon the sisters to share the understanding and inspiration they possess.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Inspiration, Understanding, Calling

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• Leaders should be the chief repenters.

  Jack Miller

  Should, Chiefs

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