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The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
- Henry Miller - 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.
- The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. -Joe Batten.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. -Ralph Nader.
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The greatest enemy of best is "good". If you're willing to accept "good" you'll never be the "best". Charles Kaiser.
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If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. - Henry Kissinger.
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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.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead.
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer.
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Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. - General George S. Patton Jr.
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy.
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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.
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As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates.
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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.
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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.
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Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. - Winston Churchill.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule. -Seneca.
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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.
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The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. - Andre Maurois.
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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.