"A leader without a title is better than a title without the ability to lead."
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"Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey."
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"Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do."
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"You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us."
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"A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people."
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"Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person."
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"A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia."
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"Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement."
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"The worst leaders are the once that think they have to know as much or more than the people who work with them. The best leaders are the once who know that their employees know hell of a lot more than what they know and willing to admit it whilst expressing the value of their employees."
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"The most effective leaders are actually better at guarding against danger when they acknowledge it that it exists. Cowards, in contrast, cling to the hope that failure will never happen and may be sloppy in the face of danger - not because they don't acknowledge that it exists, but because they are just too afraid of it to look it in the eye."
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"Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness."
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"Truly effective and inspiring leaders aren’t actually driven to lead people; they are driven to serve them."
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"Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions."
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"Breakthrough is how to distinguish a leader and who followed"
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"He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet."
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"Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen. Dalek Sec: This is not war - this is pest control! Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you? Dalek Sec: Four. Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks? Dalek Sec: We would destroy the Cybermen with one Dalek! You superior in only one respect. Cyber Leader: What is that? Dalek Sec: You are better at dying."
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"Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, todays Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators."
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"Leaders have to be dealers in hope."
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"What you want, as an actor, is a great leader. I can't bear it when I work with a director who is wishy-washy and says, "What did you think?""
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"I've always felt that I'm a natural leader."
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