Leader Quotes - Page 28

• Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Years, Political

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• President Obama, when he was elected, he could have been a unifying figure. He could have chosen to be a leader on race relations and bring us together. And he hasn't done that, he's made decisions that I think have inflamed racial tensions that have divided us rather than bringing us together.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Race, Decision

  "Cruz on Baltimore: Obama Has "Inflamed Racial Tensions" Instead Of Bringing Us Together" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians.

  Seth Klarman

  Responsibility, Agency, Government

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• I call myself the assistant cult leader.

  Charlie Munger

  Assistants, Cult

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• Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Leadership, Team, Two

  Twitter post from Jul 22, 2016

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• What are the most important qualities that make a successful entrepreneur? The ability to communicate. The ability to express your idea with certainty. That's how you become a leader-even if you are unsure, your ability to explain your vision and your direction is the attribute you need the most. ... Articulate your idea in 90 seconds or less.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Successful, Ideas, Entrepreneur

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• Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.

  John Ortberg

  Pessimism, Contagious

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• One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

  Stephen Hawking

  Technology, Weapons, Financial

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• Good leaders set vision, missions, and goals. Great leaders inspire every follower at every level to internalize their purpose, and to understand that their purpose goes far beyond the mere details of their job. When everyone is united in purpose, a positive purpose that serves not only the organization but also, hopefully, the world beyond it, you have a winning team.

  Colin Powell

  Jobs, Team, Winning

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins

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• Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

  Colin Powell

  Followers, Given

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• Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . . . and chaos erupted. We did not assert control and authority over the country, especially Baghdad. We did not bring with us the capacity to impose our will. We did not take charge. And Iraq did not in a few weeks magically transform itself into a stable nation with democratic leaders. Instead a raging insurgency engulfed the country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Iraq, Victory

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• The successful leader does not talk down to people. He lifts them up.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Successful, People, Doe

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• Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

  Ken Blanchard

  Special, Life Is, Servant

  Twitter post from Mar 26, 2015

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• The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.

  Mark Millar

  Effort, Conscious, Form

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• We are willing to follow leaders only to the extent we believe they call on our best, not our worst.

  Rachel Maddow

  Believe, Worst, Willing

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• In business, what distinguishes leaders from laggards and greatness from mediocrity is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.

  Robert Fritz

  Greatness, Mediocrity, Imagine

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• It is the quality and the character of the leader that determines the results and performance.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Character, Quality, Results

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• The best part of the character and quality of the leader is expressing who you are in the work you do and how you do it.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Character, Quality, Who You Are

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• Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Philosophy, People, Working With Others

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• Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

  Jack Welch

  Quality, Cost, Done

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• Training leaders is part of the work of discipling.

  Max Anders

  Training

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• There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war.

  Albert Einstein

  War, Rays, Today

  Albert Einstein (1933). “The fight against war”

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• Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

  Andy Mineo

  Inspire, Great Leader, Manipulate

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2015

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• It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.

  Ken Blanchard

  Baby, Journey, Self

  Twitter post from Mar 17, 2015

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• Leaders don't ever "arrive." If we ever think we're done, we are done!

  Mark Millar

  Thinking, Done, Ifs

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