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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
— Albert Einstein
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“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
— Stephen R. Covey
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“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.”
— Steve Jobs
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“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“He that thinketh he leadeth and hath no one following him is only taking a walk.”
— John C. Maxwell
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“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
— Colin Powell
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“Who sows virtue reaps honor.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
— Peter F. Drucker
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
— John F. Kennedy
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“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.”
— Mother Teresa
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“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”
— Ken Blanchard
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“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
— Michael Porter
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“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
— Coco Chanel
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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr
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“That’s been one of my mantras—focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex; you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”
— Steve Jobs
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“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”
— Aristotle
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“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
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“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
— Stephen R. Covey
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
— Charles Darwin
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“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
— Stephen King
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“Reality is created by the mind; we can change our reality by changing our mind.”
— Plato
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“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”
— Bill Bradley
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“Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.”
— Douglas MacArthur
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“Lead me, follow me, or get the hell out of my way.”
— George S. Patton Jr.
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.”
— Peter Drucker
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“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
— Seneca
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“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”
— John C. Maxwell
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“Don’t necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.”
— Donald Rumsfeld
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“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”
— Zig Ziglar
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“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world..”
— Albert Einstein
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“Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess.”
— Richard Branson
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“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
— John C. Maxwell
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“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
— Seth Godin
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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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“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
— Stephen Covey
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“It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.”
— Nelson Mandela
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“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
— Louis Pasteur
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“It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.”
— Warren Buffet
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“Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. ”
— Marcus Aurelius
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“The leader is one who, out of the clutter, brings simplicity… Out of discord, harmony… And out of difficult, opportunity.”
— Albert Einstein
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.”
— Elon Musk
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“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people.
Inventories can be managed but people must be led.”
— Ross Perot
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“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”
— Nelson Mandela
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“Part of company culture is path-dependent — it’s the lessons you learn along the way.”
― Jeff Bezos
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“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
— Sun Tzu
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“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
— Pablo Picasso
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“Leadership is a choice, not a position.”
— Stephen Covey
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“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”
— Thomas Huxley
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“You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”
— Michael Dell
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“Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as gold.”
— Elon Musk
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“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”
— Andrew Carnegie
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“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
— Brian Tracy
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“If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.”
— Ferdinand Porsche
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“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein
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“Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.”
— Andy Stanley
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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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“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.”
— Simon Sinek
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“I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.”
— Angela Davis
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.”
— Stephen Covey
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“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
— Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
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“Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
— Tony Robbins
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“Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
— Warren Buffet
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“I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.”
— Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
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“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”
— Tom Peters
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“Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people.
Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.”
— Simon Sinek
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“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”
— John J Pershing
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“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”
— Ken Blanchard
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“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”
— Sam Walton
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“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
— Peter Drucker
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“Where there is no vision, there is no hope.”
— George Washington Carver
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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
— Henry Ford
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“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”
— Stephen Covey
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“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
— Colin Powell
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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
— Albert Einstein
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“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”
— Jesse Jackson
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“Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.”
— Erskine Bowles
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“Change is easy. Improvement is far more difficult.”
— Ferdinand Porsche
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“Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.”
— Grace Murray Hopper
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“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.”
— Kenneth H. Blanchard
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“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
— Peter F. Drucker
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“Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low..”
— Tom Peters
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“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
— Abraham Lincoln
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“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.”
— J. Paul Getty
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“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
— Warren Buffett
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“Leadership is your ability to hide your panic from others.”
— Lao Tzu
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“The greatest leaders build organizations that in the end, don’t need them.”
— Jim Collins
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“Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.”
— Tom Peters
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“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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