Great People Quotes - Page 14

• What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Leadership, Teamwork

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• The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.

  Erwin McManus

  People, Leader, Needs

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• Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  People, Leader, Brilliant

  Ashleigh Brilliant (1985). “All I Want is a Warm Bed and a Kind Word and Unlimited Power: Even More Brilliant Thoughts”, Brilliant Enterprises

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• If you have great people around you, they will take you higher than your dream will. Leaders are never self-made. Those closest to you determine your level of success, so choosing the right companions as partners in pursuit of your vision is an important decision. My advice is to surround yourself with talented people who will challenge you, help you grow and inspire you to maximize your potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Self, People

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• great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Kindness, Divorce

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• Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now.I don't want to die. Do I? - Lou Reed (1965-1968)

  Legs McNeil

  Running, Dream, Rocks

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• Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Believe, Unique

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.210, Basic Books

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• Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

  Mark Cuban

  Business, Opportunity, People

  "The Best And Worst Things About Being A Billionaire: A Q&A With Mark Cuban". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. February 9, 2012.

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• We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

  Charles Handy

  Inspiring, Fire, Light

  Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, Harvard Business Press

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• Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

  Andrew Mason

  People, Giving

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• If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Book, Civilization

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

  Amy Poehler

  People, Ready, Knows

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

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• I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, People, Want

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• Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.38, Lulu.com

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