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• Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, People

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• Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Leadership, Military, Army

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Grace Hopper". The OCLC Newsletter, No. 167, www.cs.yale.edu. March/April 1987.

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

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

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• True leadership is servanthood. Put the interests of others at the center of your decisions.

  Dave Ramsey

  Decision, Interest, True Leader

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• True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Attitude, Discovery

  Myles Munroe (2007). “Keys for Leadership”, p.15, Whitaker House

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• True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

  Myles Munroe

  Followers, Use, Benefits

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• Let us not confuse objectives with methods. Too many so-called leaders of the nation fail to see the forest because of the trees. Too many of them fail to recognize the vital necessity of planning for definite objectives. True leadership calls for the setting forth of the objectives and the rallying of public opinion in support of these objectives.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Support, Tree

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• True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.

  Simon Sinek

  Risk, Needs, Steps

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• True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Giving, Missionary

  J. Oswald Sanders (2008). “Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books”, p.16, Moody Publishers

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• True leadership is serving God and not looking for the glory that might come from it. You don't do it for the glory or personal benefit but for God's glory. You don't take credit for anything that is done, but praise God for everything that He has done through you.

  Vonette Bright

  Credit, Done, Benefits

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

  Stephen Covey

  Organization, Choices, Principles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

  Leighton Ford

  Mean, People, Use

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• True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Home, Long

  First Speech Before the United Nations General Assembly (64th Session), delivered 23 September 2009, New York, NY

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• The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Leadership, Proximity, True Leader

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• We need people to be taught that they possess a hidden leader on the inside, and to reconnect to that leader, they must reconnect to the Creator who placed that leadership potential in them. They must be reconnected to God, and this is why we should come back to God not really to go to heaven, but to rediscover our true leadership dominion mandate, and then serve that to the world.

  Myles Munroe

  People, Leader, Heaven

  Source: encomium.ng

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• True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.

  David Niven

  Leadership, Teaching, Empowering

  David Niven (2007). “Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it”

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• Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

  Peter Cosgrove

  Leadership, Commitment, Appreciate

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• It is not wise, or even possible, to divorce private behavior from public leadership.... By its very nature, true leadership carries with it the burden of being an example.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Wise, Divorce, Example

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• True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

  James C. Collins

  People, Good To Great, True Leader

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• Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

  George Foreman

  Appreciation, People, Impossible

  George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

  Stephen Covey

  Exercise, Democracy, True Leader

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.

  Nathan Deal

  Leadership, Character, Impact

  "Former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders Dies At 89" By David Beasley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2014.

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