Leadership Quotes - Page 30

• A leader must identify himself with the group, must back up the group, even at the risk of displeasing superiors. He must believe that the group wants from him a sense of approval. If this feeling prevails, production, discipline, morale will be high, and in return, you can demand the cooperation to promote the goals of the community.

  Vince Lombardi

  Believe, Discipline, Goal

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• No leader, however great, can long continue unless he wins battles. The battle decides all.

  Vince Lombardi

  Winning, Long, Battle

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.45, McGraw Hill Professional

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• While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

  Bob Hawke

  Class, Income, Citizens

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• One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.

  Ben Chifley

  Men, Dozen, Fool

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• So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

  Julia Gillard

  Way, Next, Sustaining

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• These Australians hear the whispering in their heart and know it can only be silenced by coming to terms with the original owners of this beautiful and bounteous land. Many Australians of goodwill sense that a moment for national leadership has slipped past us and is gone.

  Patrick Dodson

  Beautiful, Heart, Past

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• Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Trying, May

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.99, Da Capo Press

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• But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Passion, Thinking, Perfection

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• To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

  Stephen Covey

  School, Pay The Price, Focus

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.24, Mango Media Inc.

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• I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Persistence, Organization

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  Major Owens

  Exercise, Constant, Ifs

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• On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.

  Chuck Noll

  Team, Battle, Groups

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• For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.

  Eric Schmidt

  Smart, Eye, Thinking

  "40 Things to Learned From Eric Schmidt Speech at Uc Berkeley". piepeaceblog.wordpress.com. January 02, 2017.

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• First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others.

  Zhuge Liang

  Firsts, Organize

  Liang Zhuge, Liu Ji (2005). “Mastering the Art of War”, p.90, Shambhala Publications

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• The measure of a man is what he does with power.

  Plato

  Plato, Power, Men

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• It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

  James Goodnight

  People, Turns, Company

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• Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.

  Ken Blanchard

  Inspiring, Thinking, Development

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• Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Discrepancies Between, Agendas, Bigs

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.106, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

  Andy Stanley

  Christian, Church, Trying

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• In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Relationship, Attitude, Real

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.770, Open Road Media

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• The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, Art Of War, Responsibility

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu, Chapter V · Forces, 2003.

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• Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

  William Bridges

  Loss, Thinking, People

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• Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.

  Michael Short

  Honesty, Integrity, Soul

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  Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, Pain, Mistake

  1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

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• Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.

  John Baldoni

  Goal, Outcomes, Embrace

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