"Always let your employees come to work with a smile."
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"I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly."
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"There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable."
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"It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals."
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"Leaders must learn to discipline their disappointments. It's not what happens to us, it is what we choose to do about what happens that makes the difference in how our lives turn out."
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"One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on."
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"The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing."
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"If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process."
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."
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"Grown men do not need leaders."
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"I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games."
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"If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price."
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"People who are in it for their own good are individualists. They don't share the same heartbeat that makes a team so great. A great unit, whether it be football or any organization, shares the same heartbeat."
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"I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum."
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"Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them."
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"Sooner or later we all quote our mothers."
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"The most important thing about leadership is your character and the values that guide your life."
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"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."
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"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
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"The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality."
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