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In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore is integrity and high purpose.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
-George Eliot
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People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
-Havelock Ellis
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Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thus we feed on genius, and refresh ourselves from too much conversation with our mates, and exult in the depth of nature in that direction in which he leads us. What indemnification is one great man for populations of pigmies! Every mother wishes one son a genius, though all the rest should be mediocre. But a new danger appears in the excess of influence of the great man. His attractions warp us from our place. We have become underlings and intellectual suicides. Ah! yonder in the horizon is our help;- other great men, new qualities, counterweights and checks on each other. We cloy of the honey of each peculiar greatness. Every hero becomes a bore at last. Perhaps Voltaire was not bad-hearted, yet he said of the good Jesus, even, I pray you, let me never hear that man's name again. They cry up the virtues of George Washington,- Damn George Washington! is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation. But it is human nature's indispensable defense. The centripetence augments the centrifugence. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the state depends on the see-saw.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Volume IV - Representative Men Uses of Great Men, 1850
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In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged -- or sometimes forced -- to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower.
-Roger Enrico
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In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
-John Erskine
The Complete Life
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
-Sam Ervin
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Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
-Euripides
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There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led...
-Bergen Evans
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A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
-Russell H. Ewing
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Right or wrong, the customer is always right.
-Marshall Field
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Who has not served cannot command.
-John Florio
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
-B. C. Forbes
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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
-Henry Ford
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As we go forward, those who lead will be the ones taking advantage of the creativity and productivity gains available by focusing on the human, collaborative dimension, while laggards will suffer in the face of unrelenting change.
-Dwight Frindt
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
-Richard Buckminster Fuller
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