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• There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Math, Technology, Engineering

  "Buzz Aldrin's Case For A 'Mission To Mars'". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. May 9, 2013.

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• Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Believe, Done, Needs

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• The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response.

  Bill Gates

  People, Needs, Environment

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Change is not in the hands of government, not in the hands of a leader or guru, and not in the hands of the powerful or wealthy. It is in our hands: the hands of each and every one of us.

  Shari Arison

  Powerful, Government, Hands

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• I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly.

  Anais Nin

  Want, Submission, Refuse

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• Two different things: A crowd is a tribe without a leader. A crowd is a tribe without communication. Most organizations spend their time marketing to the crowd. Smart organizations assemble the tribe.

  Seth Godin

  Smart, Communication, Organization

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.30, Penguin

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• Why are some people like Chuck Schumer, who`s probably going to be leader of the Senate, why is he switching from a big city financial center pro-trader to being an anti-trader? Is that because of upstate New York? What`s going on? I can`t figure this out.

  Chris Matthews

  New York, Cities, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Trying to be a leader, you've got to be really sure of what you're doing and you've got to guide people the right way.

  Genndy Tartakovsky

  People, Trying, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I can tell you who's planning terroris attacks. The leaders of ISIL. And I can tell you where they're at. They're in Raqqa, Syria. So for God's sakes, Mr. President Barack Obama , change your strategy. Come up with a ground force to go in and destroy the caliphate before we get hit here at home. That would be my advice to you.

  Rand Paul

  Home, Advice, President

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Speaks Out, Tolerance

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The actor in me always wants to link himself to a leader who's inspired.

  Chris Bauer

  Actors, Links, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Spring, Party

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• Fascism is not just a word. It`s not just a way to insult someone with whom you disagree. It is a specific thing. It is a specific form of far right politics that involves a sort of narcissistic cult of superman action around the leader of the party.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Narcissistic, Way

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• Fascistic leaders are aggressively macho and chauvinistic. They are xenophobic about people who they portray as outsiders or some sort of threat to the nation or as weaklings they can denounce.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Outsiders, Threat

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• Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?

  Thomas Sowell

  Latin, Media, Style

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.100, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Leaders use story to author the future.

  Robert McKee

  Stories, Use

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• To allow your organization the permission to fail is a very powerful thing. If we want to really be thought leaders and industry leaders, it doesn't come without taking risks. We're not afraid to take those risks that will get us to a better place.

  Rick Welts

  Powerful, Organization, Risk

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• Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

  Richard Condon

  Cancer, Men, Assassins

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• My father, Ronald Reagan, held the presidency in such honor and reverence that he was never in the Oval Office without a coat and tie. Bill Clinton has such disrespect for the presidency that he was often in the Oval Office without his pants. Behold the leader of 'the most ethical administration in history'.

  Michael Reagan

  Father, Ties, Office

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• There are a number of World War II historians I admire: Cornelius Ryan, Mark Stoler, Antony Beevor, to name a few. As for generals, there are those I admire as combat leaders and others I admire because they're great fun to write about.

  Rick Atkinson

  Fun, War, Writing

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• You must keep your composure. Take charge of the huddle. Be a leader. And silence, the crowd.

  Eric Thomas

  Silence, Crowds, Composure

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• I meet people who use the term "plant spirit" as a matter of course. Initially I thought they were all rather woo-woo, but as I met more brilliant, accomplished plant spirit thought leaders, my thoughts started to shift to, "What am I missing here?"

  Zoe Helene

  People, Missing, Use

  "Interview: Celebrity Psychonaut Dennis Mckenna". Interview with Dennis Mckenna, nailedmagazine.com. April 9, 2014.

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• The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves."

  Laozi

  Tasks, Followers, Ease

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• All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Numbers, Discipline

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• If you increase your success by even a mere 10 percent, you have become 10 percent more effective as a leader than you were before.

  Dale Carnegie

  Increase, Percent, Mere

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