Leadership Quotes - Page 39

• Big thinking precedes great achievement.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

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

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• The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Atmosphere

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.107, Hachette UK

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• Barack, like any leader, is human.
  And, you know, our challenges in this country isn't finding the next person who's gonna deliver us from our own evil.
  Because our challenges are us.
  The challenges that this country faces is how are we as individuals in this society gonna change?
  What are we gonna do differently?

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Country, Business

  "Michelle Obama On Love, Family & Politics". Interview with Katie Couric, www.cbsnews.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Inspirational, Birthday, Past

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• If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Work, New Beginnings

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• Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Jobs, Future

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• Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

  Robert McNamara

  Love, Broken Heart, Brain

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• The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

  James Broughton

  Motivational, Business, Vision

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• If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

  James Goldsmith

  Motivation, Business, Procrastination

  "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.

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• The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

  Sun Tzu

  Business, War, Army

  "The Art of War". Chapter I: Detail Assessment and Planning. Translated by Chow-Hou Wee, 2003.

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• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivation, Business

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• Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

  Stephen Covey

  Business, Management, Stimulus And Response

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

  Gene Mauch

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Strong, Business

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• I don't like people who are in politics for themselves and not for others. You want that, you can go into show business.

  Elvis Presley

  Business, People, Want

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Confidence, Courage, Determination

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• Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Attributed; no source found

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• The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

  John W. Gardner

  Sports, Education, Teacher

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• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

  Henry Ford

  Education, Wise, Business

  "The Secret of Staying in Love". Book by John Powell, p. 85, 1990.

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• Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Success, Freedom, Business

  Giuliani's speech at a forum about crime in the cities, sponsored by The New York Post, www.nytimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• The future you shall know when it has come; before then, forget it.

  Aeschylus

  Sports, Future, Forget

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.29, University of Chicago Press

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• A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

  Yoko Ono

  Friendship, Inspiring, Anniversary

  Twitter post from Jun 08, 2015

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• There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.

  Eric Jensen

  Thinking, Mind, Emotion

  Eric Jensen (1998). “Teaching with the Brain in Mind”, Assn for Supervision & Curriculum

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