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  Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  Jack Welch

  Educational, Inspiration, Helping Others

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Motivational Sports

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Greatness, Numbers, Achieve

  John C. Maxwell (2013). “The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork: Embrace Them and Empower Your Team”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's never crowded along the extra mile.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Perseverance

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “A Promise Is a Promise: An Almost Unbelievable Story of a Mother's Unconditional Love and What It Can Teach Us: Easyread Large Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Learning is not compulsory; it's voluntary... But to survive, we must learn.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  "Deming: The Way We Knew Him". Book by Frank Voehl, February 28, 1995.

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• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Business, Real

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.46, New Directions Publishing

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Inspiring, Veterans Day

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• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wisdom, Distance, Judging People

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

  Douglas Adams

  Money, Educational, Integrity

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivation, Impossible, Imagine

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• Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  World, Fists, Tables

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• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Business, Authority And Power, Bruises

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.

  Gil Amelio

  Motivational, Communication, Knowledge

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• Persuasive communication involves enthusiasm, animation, audience participation, authenticity and spontaneity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Communication, Enthusiasm, Spontaneity

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• More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one thing a leader can do to connect with followers at a human, or better still a spiritual level, it is to become engaged with them fully, to share experiences and emotions, and to set aside the processes of leadership we have learned by rote.

  Lance Secretan

  Spiritual, Believe, Heart

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• Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

  John Spence

  Inspirational, Successful, Thinking

  John Spence (2011). “Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action (Large Print 16pt)”, p.205, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A leader has to appear consistent. That doesn't mean he has to be consistent.

  James Callaghan

  Mean, Leader, Consistent

  "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.

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• Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

  Erskine Bowles

  Successful, Keys, Effort

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• The only test of leadership is that somebody follows.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Tests

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (1998). “The Power of Servant-leadership: Essays”, p.31, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• What you can't enforce, do not command.

  Sophocles

  Future Leaders, Great Leader, Command

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• Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

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• The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

  Bryant H. McGill

  World, Starving, Originals

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• It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.

  J. K. Rowling

  Power, Potters, Harry Potter Movie

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• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Religious, Creativity

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Forbes, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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