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• We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

  John P. Kotter

  Needs, Pace, Knows

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• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Walter Lippmann

  Business, Common Sense, Grace

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

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• There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

  Booker T. Washington

  Life, Power, Simple

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “A Will to Be Free”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• I think personal diplomacy has caused a lot of mischief and harm, and has impeded the progress of peace in the world. It leads to a very great fallacy - the almost pathetic belief of some Foreign Ministers - that, if they had lunch with someone and called him by his Christian name, they have changed the fundamental facts of relationship between nations.

  Paul Hasluck

  Christian, Thinking, Names

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• What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

  Nelson Mandela

  Differences, Generosity, Making A Difference

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

  Mitt Romney

  Responsibility, Excuse, Inspiring Leader

  "Mitt Romney's Florida Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Each Day, Negative

  Winston Churchill (1959). “The World Crisis”

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• My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Jobs, People

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• If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Character, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

  Harry Gordon Selfridge

  Boss, Entrepreneur, Authority

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• If you create an environment where the people truly participate, you don't need control. They know what needs to be done and they do it. And the more that people will devote themselves to your cause on a voluntary basis, a willing basis, the fewer hierarchies and control mechanisms you need.

  Herb Kelleher

  People, Needs, Done

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• Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Sticks, Conservative

  Letter to Henry L. Sprague, 26 Jan. 1900

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• Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Teamwork

  "Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy". Book by Joseph P. Lash, 1980.

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• One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Change, Success, Reflection

  Robert E. Quinn (2010). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Nature, Vacuums

  As quoted in "The Christian Science Monitor", December 20, 1984.

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• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Men, Thinking, Intuition

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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• Good leaders must first become good servants.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Future Leaders, Firsts, Great Leader

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• Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

  Jim Rohn

  Spiritual, Positivity, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2016

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• In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Work, Character, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1839). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.203

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• The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Army, Soldier

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.

  James H. Boren

  Looks, Ears, Look Up

  James H. Boren (1982). “Fuzzify!: Borenwords and strategies for bureaucratic success”, Epm Pubns Inc

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• Working in the context of ultra-famous brands like Dior and Vuitton, creative spirits are always going to feel reined in. It's important that they are free to develop ideas. And rather than detracting from the principal job, it reinforces it. I think of that money as venture capital. It's not a big investment.

  Bernard Arnault

  Jobs, Freedom, Thinking

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• We were not designed to be dominated.

  Myles Munroe

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• Where is he who seeing a thousand men useless and unhappy, and making the whole region forlorn by their inaction, and conscious himself of possessing the faculty they want, does not hear his call to go and be their king?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Men, Unhappy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1228, Delphi Classics

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• Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

  Edmund Spenser

  Motivation, Great Leader, Ill

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1842). “Faerie queene. book III-V”, p.245

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