"He that cannot obey, cannot command."
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
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"Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit."
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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party"
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"Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great."
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"No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent."
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"If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk."
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"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."
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"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
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"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one."
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"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention."
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"It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back."
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"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position."
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"Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word."
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"It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it."
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"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
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"No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company."
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"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."
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"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader."
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"The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process."
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