Leadership Quotes - Page 33

• Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

  Marco Rubio

  Organization, Steps, Degrade

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Believe, Independent

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• My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Jobs, Children, Order

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

  Pat Heim

  Looks, Easy, Great Leader

  Pat Heim, Susan K. Golant (2005). “Hardball for Women: Revised Edition”, p.121, Penguin

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• And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

  Tony Dungy

  Football, Believe, Nfl

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• I can't give you the sunset, but I can give you the night.

  Erin McCarthy

  Success, Sunset, Night

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

  Charles Darwin

  Teaching, Learning

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• I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.

  Kevin Andrews

  Country, Team, Party

  "Tony Abbott vows to fight Liberal leadership spill motion - live" by Gabrielle Chan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2015.

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• Leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do it.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Life, Matter, Existence

  Peter F. Drucker, Joan Snyder Kuhl, Frances Hesselbein (2015). “Peter Drucker's Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today's Leaders”, p.85, John Wiley & Sons

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• I wouldn't call myself a leader. I don't want to lead people, I want to tempt them, I want to create a new world for them, just for that very small moment, when they are losing themselves in my music. I want to inspire them

  Paul van Dyk

  Music, Creating, People

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• We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

  Robert Muller

  Moving, World Government, World Religions

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• Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.

  Chancellor Williams

  Responsibility, Writing, Men

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  Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Happiness, Teacher

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• Talent is the discipline, commitment, and willpower to practice/train/study often, long, and hard. Discover your passion and pay the price.

  Bradford Winters

  Passion, Commitment, Pay The Price

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• Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.

  Pete Hoekstra

  Inspirational, Real, People

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• Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Basketball, Courage

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  People, Boss, Tao Te Ching

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• What you see in the interview will not get significantly better when the individual is hired.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Interviews

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• The success of any change depends, in large measure, on your attitude about that change.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Attitude

  David Cottrell (2016). “The First Two Rules of Leadership: Don't be Stupid, Don't be a Jerk”, p.109, John Wiley & Sons

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• Take the time and energy to manage your boss the same way you manage your team.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Team

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• One of the main things for a leader is to eliminate confusion.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Confusion

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.36, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Your team has entrusted a portion of their life to you, and it's your job to help them grow, personally and professionally.

  David Cottrell

  Monday, Morning, Jobs

  David Cottrell (2002). “Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss”, p.75, CornerStone Leadership Inst

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• Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Years, Mind, Rewards

  "'Drive' Not Always Explained By Rewards". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 4, 2010.

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