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Harry S. Truman
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| "A leader is best When people barely know he exists. Not so good When
people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good
leader Who talks little When his work is done, His aim fulfilled, They
will say "We did it ourselves."" | |
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Lao Tzu
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| "A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries
to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over
the long term." | |
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Robert B. Reich
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| "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
crowd." | |
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Max Lucado
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| "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective
management is discipline, carrying it out." | |
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Stephen R. Covey
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| "I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as
old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast
a scale as I could." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?" | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "If the people will lead, eventually the leaders will follow." | |
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Florence Robinson
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| "In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and
logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to
persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people
emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action,
to move people intellectually." | |
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Mortimer Jerome Adler
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| "In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go,
and gets up, and goes." | |
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John Erksine
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| "In spite of the fact that the ladder tapers to one-man rungs at the
top, the roomiest part is farthest up." | |
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Charles R. Gow
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| "In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master." | |
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are
no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must
have a genius for organizing." | |
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John Henry Cardinal Newman
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| "Is the leadership of the worldwide church in the hands of men and
women who know how to lead others one by one to Jesus Christ? We are so
concerned with planning and administration that there is a danger lest we
allow these things to serve as an excuse for not doing the one thing on
which all else depends." | |
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Stephen Neill
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| "It is much safer to obey, than to govern." | |
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Thomas à Kempis
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| "It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and
maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is
a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and
lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and
lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which
have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only
one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only
as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision." | |
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Samuel Jones Tillden
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| "Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an
important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit
and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will
decline and die." | |
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James L. Hayes
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| "LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used in giving stability to
light lovers ? particularly to those who love not wisely but other men"s
wives." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much
faster." | |
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Andy Grove
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| "Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must
bring sides together." | |
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Jesse Jackson
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| "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if
you must be without one, be without the strategy." | |
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General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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| "Leadership is an action, not a position." | |
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Donald H. McGannon
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| "Leadership is not magnetic personality ? that can just as well be a
glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people" ? that is
flattery. Leadership is lifting a person"s vision to high sights, the
raising of a person"s performance to a higher standard, the building of a
personality beyond its normal limitations." | |
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Peter F. Drucker
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| "Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her
actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement." | |
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F. G. "Buck" Rodgers
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| "Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of
those who would be affected by it." | |
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Marian Anderson
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| "Most people are on the world, not in it. - have no conscious
sympathy or relationship to anything about them ? undiffused, separate,
and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but
separate." | |
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John Muir
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| "No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the
successes of those under him." | |
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W. A. Nance
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| "Nothing so conclusively proves a man"s ability to lead others as
what he does from day to day to lead himself." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem
before it becomes an emergency." | |
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Arnold H. Glasow
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| "Only with a new leader do you realize the value of the old." | |
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Proverb
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| "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of
their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it"s amazing what they
can accomplish." | |
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Sam Walton
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| "People are more easily led than driven." | |
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David Harold Fink
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| "People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision." | |
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John C. Maxwell
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| "People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish
things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively
dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their
minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life"s circumstances
to push them down and hold them under." | |
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Charles Swindoll
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| "Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader." | |
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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| "Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead
indifferently." | |
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John G. Vance
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| "The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in
the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of
leadership." | |
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R. Shannon
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| "The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of
dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being
sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square
facing toward their own problems." | |
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S. L. A. Marshall
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| "The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men
to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling
with them while they do it." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have
a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting
innovation, they symbolize it." | |
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David Ogilvy
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| "The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, "Go!" -a
leader says, "Let"s go!"." | |
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E. M. Kelly
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| "The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general
rules." | |
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Elting E. Morison
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| "The first responsibility of a leader is to define responsibility.
The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." | |
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Max De Pree
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| "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which
common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with
successfully." | |
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Walter Lippmann
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| "The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond
the notes to reach the magic in the players." | |
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Blaine Lee
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| "The higher the monkey climbs the tree, the more you can see of his
behind." | |
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James Brady
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| "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not
authority." | |
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Kenneth Blanchard
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| "The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the
language of the visionary and the idealist." | |
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Eric Hoffer
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| "The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to
make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows." | |
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Clarence R. Randall
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| "The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that
there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people
simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That"s nonsense;
in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born." | |
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Warren G. Bennis
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| "The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged
as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in
force." | |
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Andre Maurois
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| "The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are
keeping their ears to the ground." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "The only real training for leadership is leadership." | |
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Anthony Jay
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| "The presidency is not merely an administrative office. It is
pre-eminently a place of moral leadership." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for
themselves." | |
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Ray Kroc
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| "The real leader has no need to lead ? he is content to point the
way." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "The responsibility of a leader is to bring those that are under his
direction from where they are now to where they have never been." | |
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James Mendel
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| "The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by
nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of
courage." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack." | |
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D. Wayne Lukas
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| "The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to
where they have not been." | |
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Henry Alfred Kissinger
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| "The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the
point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." | |
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Fred A. Manske, Jr.
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| "The very essence of leadership is [that] you have a vision. It"s got
to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You
can"t blow an uncertain trumpet." | |
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Theodore Hesburgh
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| "There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute
democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not
on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on
violence; on freedom, not on enslavement. It must weave a social fabric in
which the most important strands are a devotion to truth and a commitment
to righteousness. These are essential ingredients of the American way of
life. They are the necessary conditions for the achievement of freedom and
human progress the world over." | |
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Dr. Edmund Ezra Day
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| "There are no reluctant leaders. A real leader must really want the
job.... If you find the need for a leader and have to coax or urge your
selection, you"ll be well advised to pass him over. He"s not the man you
need." | |
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Ira C. Eaker
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| "There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the
ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be
to the advantage of the led ..." | |
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Bergen Evans
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| "To be a leader of men one must turn one"s back on men." | |
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Henry Havelock Ellis
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| "To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." | |
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Andre Malraux
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| "Trained and inspired leadership is needed in the troubled world of
today. We live in uncertainty and fear. The times call for thinking and
straight thinking ? one of the goals of true education. Unfortunately, the
world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to
thinking. Many believe in second-hand thinking. They find it easier to
ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for
themselves." | |
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James F. Byrnes
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| "Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process." | |
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Harold Geneen
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| "When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as
public property." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on
his back, you"ve got something." | |
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Unknown
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| "You can"t lead anyone else further than you have gone
yourself." | |
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Gene Mauch
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| "You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless
you know how to follow, too." | |
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Sam Rayburn
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| "You do not lead by hitting people over the head ? that"s assault,
not leadership." | |
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General Dwight David Eisenhower
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| "You don"t have to hold a position in order to be a leader." | |
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| "You don?t manage people; you manage things. You lead people." | |
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Admiral Grace Hooper
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| "You will never be a leader unless you first learn to follow and be
led." | |
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Tiorio
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