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I'm their leader, I've got to follow them.
-Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
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The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
-Blaine Lee
The Power Principle
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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
-Blaine Lee
The Power Principle
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In our society a man is known by the company he owns.
-Gerald F. Lieberman
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Public sentiment is everything, with it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.
-Abraham Lincoln
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It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
-Robert Lindner
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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
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
-Walter Lippmann
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There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
-Liu Shao-Ch'I
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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
-John Locke
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There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
-Ken Loeffler
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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
-Vince Lombardi
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
-Vince Lombardi
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
-Vince Lombardi
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
-Vince Lombardi
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Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
-Wayne Lukas
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
source date 1513
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He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.
-Iain Macleod
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
-Andre Malraux
Man's Hope
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The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
-Fred A. Manske, Jr.
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Popularity is not leadership.
-Richard Marcinko
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Books about Leadership
