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"Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside."
"Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path."
"With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case."
"The CIA has a plot...they've used before to get rid of world leaders. Only problem...is convincing Hussein...to fly to Dallas."
"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves."
"Manager solves problems, leader prevents them."
"Leaders of political parties need to keep in contact with the people; that's what it's all about. If violence were to erupt, I am fairly confident that we could control our people. Whether or not the authorities can control theirs is another matter altogether."
"When enough electrons within an atom get aligned and a critical mass is reached - as soon as you hit that hundredth monkey, as soon as you hit the one - you have phase transition, and all the rest of the electrons automatically make the change. My mission - what I teach and what I believe in - is that you just get yourself aligned with God-consciousness. If we teach enough people to do it - if enough of us ultimately get there - then we'll start electing leaders with this kind of consciousness. We'll start seeing kinds of shifts taking their place."
"We know that England is crying for a leader, and that leader has emerged in the person of the greatest Englishman I have ever known, Sir Oswald Mosley... When the history of Europe comes to be written I can assure you that his name will not be second to either Mussolini or Hitler."
"Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil."
"Leaders anticipate. Losers react"
"If you want to be a leader, go lead"
"Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic."
"Be the leader you wish you had."
"A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong."
"There are leaders, and there are those who lead."
"We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care."
"The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success"
"Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done."
"Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail."
