Leadership Quotes - Page 10

• Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

  Peter Drucker

  Wise, Responsibility, Power

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• Clarity affords focus.

  Thomas Leonard

  Focus, Clarity

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• Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Top Management, Average, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Athlete, Perfection

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• True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

  John Wayne

  Sports, Men, Should Have

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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• The goal of an effective leader is to recondition your team to be solution focused rather than problem focused.

  Jim Rohn

  Team, Goal, Problem

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• The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.

  William Arthur Ward

  Basketball, Motivation, Disappointment

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Fda

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• The aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine, to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. Put in a negative way, the aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures of men, but to remove the causes of failure: to help people to do a better job with less effort.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Jobs, Pride, Men

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• Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Want, Young

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• The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Relationship, Success

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.13, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Way, Influence, Boundaries

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• Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Wisdom, Two Sides

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• Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspiring, Fear, Famous Inspirational

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• The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but, it is fear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Fear, Hate

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• In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

  Ken Blanchard

  Power, Past, People

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• Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Volleyball, Spiritual

  Vince Lombardi (1998). “Seeing the Win: Why I Believe Vision Coaching is Vital to Winning Business Teams in the 21st Century”

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• To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.

  Successful, Careers, Entrepreneur

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Motivation, Educational

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Relationship, Teacher

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

  John C. Maxwell

  Noble, Longing, Significant

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• A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

  Nelson Mandela

  Real, Issues, Stronger

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

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• There are no office hours for leaders.

  James Gibbons

  Wrestling, Office, Hours

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• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  Andre Maurois

  Business, Quality, Important

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