Leader Quotes - Page 36

• There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

  Harry S. Truman

  Greatness, Men, Done

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• It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Hands, Political

  "Kenya's leader urges peacekeepers in Zimbabwe". www.cnn.com. June 24, 2008.

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• It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .

  Raila Odinga

  Rights, Views, Zimbabwe

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• I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Sports, Football, Opportunity

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• Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

  Seth Godin

  Smart, Communication, Organization

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.30, Penguin

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• The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

  Phil Ochs

  Revolution, United States, Would Be

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• Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Caring, Levels, Should

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• Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg.

  Noam Chomsky

  Law, Iraq, Invasion

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• Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.

  Mark Batterson

  Needs, Acknowledge

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• In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

  Michael Heseltine

  Leadership, Credit, Blame

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• The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Reality, Vision, Four

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• I've never seen a great military, political, or corporate leader who was not a great storyteller. Telling stories is a core competency in business, although it's one that we don't pay enough attention to.

  Bran Ferren

  Military, Political, Telling Stories

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• Leaders who fail to lift others in the long run, fail to lift themselves.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Long, Failing

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• Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Dream, Real, Government

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• A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have become a distant memory. Atikokan's successful conversion to biomass will put Ontario on the world map as a leader in using this sustainable fuel source for electricity production.

  Bob Chiarelli

  Memories, Successful, Air

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• It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, Drug, High Standards

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

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• With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, People, Ends

  'Squawk Box' with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. May 6, 2013.

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• The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

  George Orwell

  Religious, Spring, War

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.

  John Dewey

  Independent, Independence, Want

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• The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

  John Fairclough

  People, Roles, Want

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• In order to unscramble some eggs the leader gotta have some balls

  Margaret Thatcher

  Order, Eggs, Balls

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• The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

  Emmitt Smith

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• Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?

  Woody Allen

  Believe, Enough

  "Bananas". www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• We must not fall into the trap of projecting our own morality onto the Soviet leaders. They do not share our aspirations, they are not constrained by our ethics, they always consider themselves exempt from the rules that bind other states.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Fall, Ethics, Morality

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That's just the way it is. Even George Bush's father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn't that bright.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Father, Smart

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