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Leadership : The real LEADER has no need to lead.

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

  2. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. -Max Depree.
  3. The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. -Joe Batten.

  4. The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -Ralph Nader.

  5. The greatest enemy of best is "good". If you're willing to accept "good" you'll never be the "best". Charles Kaiser.

  6. If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. - Henry Kissinger.

  7. Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps." David Lloyd George.

  8. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead.

  9. Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer.

  10. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. - General George S. Patton Jr.

  11. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy.

  12. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. . . . The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt.

  13. As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates.

  14. A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, his troops will feel they did it themselves. - Lao-tzu.

  15. Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. - Winston Churchill.

  16. Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. - Winston Churchill.

  17. To govern was to serve, not to rule. -Seneca.

  18. If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.  - Admiral Grace Hopper. 

  19. The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. - Andre Maurois. 

  20. 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.

 
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