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  A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

  Sam Houston

  People, Helping, Improvement

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• We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, College, Nfl

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• Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

  John Naisbitt

  Parades, Findings, Inspiring Leader

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• You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

  Anita Roddick

  Eye, Looks, Followers

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiration, Lgbt, Matter

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• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strength, Peace, Men

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Character, Mean

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  Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.

  Dianne Feinstein

  People, Political, Politics

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• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  Carly Fiorina

  Funny, Small Acts, Strokes

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• In fair weather prepare for foul.

  Thomas Fuller

  Weather, Preparation, Foul

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• A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Inspiration, Elements, Surprise

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• Whereas ordinary officers must be content with behaving correctly in front of their men, the great leaders have always carefully stage-managed their effects.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Great Leader, Stage, Effects

  "The Edge of the Sword".

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• Example is leadership.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Growth, Example

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• We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

  William Arthur Ward

  Sports, Attitude, Silence

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The world will not wait for us.

  Bob Hawke

  Waiting, World

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• Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

  Indra Nooyi

  People, Followers, Earth

  "Together with Business Studies XI". Book by Rachna Sagar (p. 225), 2016.

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• To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

  Russell L. Ackoff

  Integrity, Taken, Organization

  "On purposeful systems (1972)". "Thinking about Quality: Progress, Wisdom, and the Deming Philosophy". Book by Clare Crawford-Mason and Lloyd Dobyns, p. 40, 1994.

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• The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

  Edmund Hillary

  Inspirational, Extraordinary Person, People

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• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Courage

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, Apr. 1934. A similar remark, attributed to an anonymous octogenarian, appears in the Washington Post, 11 Sept. 1910. See Jefferson 42

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• When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Tough, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Mar 06, 2014

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• Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Worry, Trouble, Happens

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• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Business, Inspiration

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

  Jonathan Winters

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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