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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
-Dorothy Parker
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The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents.
-Amos Parrish
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
-Blaise Pascal
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We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
-General George Patton
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Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
-General George Patton
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Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.
-H. Ross Perot
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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
-Thomas J. Peters
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
-Thomas J. Peters
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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
-Thomas J. Peters
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The person who has no enemies has no followers.
-Don Piatt
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It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
-Pope John XXIII
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
-Sam Rayburn
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The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
-Jean Paul Richter
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A good hitting instructor is able to mold his teaching to the individual. If a guy stands on his head, you perfect that.
-Bill Robinson
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The penalty of leadership is loneliness.
-H. Wheeler Robinson
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If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.
-Jim Rohn
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Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed.
-Jim Rohn
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A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
-Jim Rohn
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Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
-Jim Rohn
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The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
-Jim Rohn
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People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit up and take notice.
-Frank Romer
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Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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Books about Leadership
