Future Leaders Quotes

• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

  John P. Kotter

  Inspirational, Leader, Vision

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Business, Blow

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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 A. Kissinger

  Leadership, Motivation, People

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• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Thomas Jefferson (2013). “The Jefferson Bible [annotated]: Original Old English Version and Modern Updates to The Jefferson Bible”, p.139, BookBaby

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• That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Opposites, Born Leaders

  Warren Bennis, Steven B. Sample, Rob Asghar (2015). “The Art and Adventure of Leadership: Understanding Failure, Resilience and Success”, p.15, John Wiley & Sons

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• Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

  Anita Borg

  Real, People, Leader

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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

  Leadership, Being Strong, Business

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 24, 2016

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• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

  Max De Pree

  Leadership, Responsibility, Reality

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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  The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Appreciation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

  Theodore Hesburgh

  Leadership, Blow, Common Vision

  Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.

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• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton. Chapter "Reflections and Suggestions", 1947.

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• Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Leadership, Business, Character

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• The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Personality, Born Leaders

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge

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• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Educational

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

  Tony Blair

  Motivational, Leadership, Art

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• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Leadership, Confidence

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• Leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Great Leader, Results

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• All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, 1977.

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• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Time

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• It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "That's Life : Wild Wit & Wisdom". Book by Bonnie Louise Kuchler, 2003.

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