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"Tell me a country that is doing well and has a great leader? You look at the nuclear weapons all over the place and you look at things like ISIS, and every country seems to have a battle going on. This is not leading to a good conclusion, unless the world wakes up. This is not what I was living through 50 years ago."
"I say, of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishment is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that the methods it has chosen are not the right methods, and the leaders in whom it trusts, not the right sort of men to be leaders; - in brief, that we are at present the blind led, if not by the blind, at any rate by the one-eyed."
"Leaders are not born or made - they are self made"
"To be a great leader, first become a great person."
"Leaders don't make excuses. They create results"
"We leaders should leave the tradition that we have become crazy for God."
".. it makes sense that introverts are uniquely good at leading intiative-takers. Because of their inclination to listen to others and lack of interest in dominating social situations, introverts are more likely to hear and implement suggestions. Having benefited from the talents of their followers, they are then likely to motivate them to be even more proactive. Introverted leaders create a virtious circle of proactivity."
"We don't need giant personalities to transform companies. We need leaders who build not their own egos but the institutions they run."
"I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me."
"Everything I have personally experienced, and that also has been expressed by the leaders of the great religions points to the fact that a global spirituality already exists and was intrinsically there from the start as God (by whatever name) is one and is indivisible - everywhere outside time and place."
"A true leader produces more leaders."
"It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one."
"If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders."
"How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims."
"Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status."
"O philosophy, you leader of life."
"If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized."
"Transcending class distinctions, the speaker [Stalin] portrays the relation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat as a mere division of labor. The workers and soldiers achieve the revolution, Guchkov and Miliukov "fortify" it.[...] This superintendent's approach to the historical process is exactly characteristic of the leaders of Menshevism, this handing out of instructions to various classes and then patronizingly criticizing their fulfillment."
"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."
"In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt."
