"I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students."
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"Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader."
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"Your number one skill as a leader is the ability to influence"
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"Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers"
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"I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here."
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"Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead."
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"There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have."
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"Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection."
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"It's hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do."
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"The true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own. Great leaders truly care about those they are privileged to lead and understand that the true cost of the leadership privilege comes at the expense of self-interest."
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"The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do."
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"Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow."
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"Bad leaders care about who is right. Good leaders care about what is right"
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"It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself."
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"Commit to Excellence. Become massively innovative and wear your passion on your sleeve. They might call you different or weird or even crazy. But please remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered."
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"Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire."
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"I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers."
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"If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul."
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"A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't."
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"It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders."
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