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Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
-Hubert Humphrey
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I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
-Lee Iacocca
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Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
-Elliott Jaques
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Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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Morale is faith in the man at the top.
-Albert Sidney Johnston
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Leaders are readers.
-Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones
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The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F?hrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
-Carl Gustav Jung
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Keep cool and you will command everyone.
-Justinian
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The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' - a leader says, 'Let's go!'
-E. M. Kelly
Growing Disciples, 1995
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Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.
-Thomas Kempis
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It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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The highest of distinctions is service to others.
-King George VI
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The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
-Henry Kissinger
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Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
-Henry Kissinger
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Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
-Henry Kissinger
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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
-John Knox
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Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
-Tom Landry
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
-Lao-Tzu
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves.
-Lao-Tzu
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I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.
-Lao-Tzu
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To lead people walk behind them.
-Lao-Tzu
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It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.
-Lao-Tzu
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
-Lao-Tzu
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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.
-Lewis H. Lapham
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
-Ralph Lauren
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Books about Leadership
