"I call myself the assistant cult leader."
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"Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What our modernized liberal leaders offer is not confrontation but a kind of therapy for those flattened by the free-market hurricane: they counsel us to accept the inevitability of the situation."
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"Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want."
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"Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and to shape the course of destiny. Words can not only create emotions, they create actions. And from our actions flow the results of our lives."
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"Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human."
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"Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on."
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"The real reward for doing your best work is not the money you make but the leader you become."
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"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation"
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"The quality of a good leader therefore is his vision, tenacity, and his capability."
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"We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public."
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"The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us."
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"Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do."
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"The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment."
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"If your program has a great leader, you'll get great things. If you don't have a great leader and people aren't on the same page, you have a lot of different people doing a lot of different things. That's where trouble starts."
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"Every leader is telling a story... about what he or she values."
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"He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is."
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"Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody."
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"Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself."
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"When leaders care less about their people, their people will be careless."
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"Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents."
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