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  The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Basketball, Successful

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Sports, Spiritual, Helping Others

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• I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

  Robert E. Lee

  Motivational, Inspiring, Trust

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• Leaders grow; they are not made.

  Peter Drucker

  Leader, Made, Grows

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Business

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• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

  Inspirational, Change, Success

  New York Herald Tribune 14 Apr. 1945

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• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wall

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Trying, Want

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 02, 2017

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  I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.

  Howard Schultz

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Truth

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• Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.

  Tom Peters

  Vision, Management, Nurturing

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• There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, People, Future Leaders

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• Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Inspiring, Caring

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Truth, Lying, Responsibility

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.60, Pantheon

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• Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Bad Ass, Sheep

  "Pocket Patriot: Quotes from American Heroes". Book edited by Kelly Nickell, p. 157, 2005.

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• A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

  Hugo Grotius

  Family, Passion, Men

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• If you think you're a leader and you turn around and no one is following you, then you're simply out for a walk.

  James M. Kouzes

  Thinking, Walks, Turns

  James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2010). “The Truth about Leadership: The No-fads, Heart-of-the-Matter Facts You Need to Know”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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  Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Ideas, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.63, Penguin

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• The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

  Eva Cox

  Essence, People, Mind

  Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

  Anne Sweeney

  People, Giving, Expectations

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• Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

  J. P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Basketball, Teamwork, Sports

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Simple, People

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.108, Penguin

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• If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Looks, Strategy, Masters

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.16, Bottom of the Hill

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