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“The most dangerous leadership myth is
that leaders are born—that there is a
genetic factor to leadership. That's
nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.
Leaders are made rather than born.”
—Warren Bennis

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“Management is efficiency in climbing the
ladder of success; leadership determines
whether the ladder is leaning against the
right wall.”
—Stephen Covey

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“Become the kind of leader that people
would follow voluntarily; even if you had
no title or position.”
—Brian Tracy

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“The challenge of leadership is to be
strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak;
be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but
not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be
proud, but not arrogant.”
—Jim Rohn

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“It’s okay to admit what you don’t know.
It’s okay to ask for help. And it’s more
than okay to listen to the people you
lead – in fact, it’s essential.”
—Mary Barra

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“Leadership is not a person or a
position. It is a complex moral
relationship between people based on
trust, obligation, commitment, emotion,
and a shared vision of the good.”
—Joanne Ciulla

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“The first responsibility of a leader is to
define reality. The last is to say thank
you. In between, the leader is a
servant.”
—Max DePree

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“A good leader takes a little more than
his share of the blame, a little less than
his share of the credit.”
—Arnold Glasow

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“People ask the difference between a leader
and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss
drives.”
—Theodore Roosevelt

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“Leadership is hard to define, and good
leadership even harder. But if you can
get people to follow you to the ends of
the earth, you are a great leader.”
—Indra Nooyi

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“A leader takes people where they want
to go. A great leader takes people
where they don’t necessarily want to go,
but ought to be.”
—Rosalynn Carter

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“A leader is one who knows the way,
goes the way, and shows the way.”
—John Maxwell

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“Our chief want is someone who will
inspire us to be what we know we
could be.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Leadership is about making others
better as a result of your presence, and
making sure that impact lasts in your
absence.”
—Sheryl Sandberg

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“The led must not be compelled. They
must be able to choose their own
leader.”
—Albert Einstein

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“A leader is one who sees more than
others see, who sees farther than others
see and who sees before others see.”
—Leroy Eimes

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“Never tell people how to do things. Tell
them what to do, and they will surprise
you with their ingenuity.”
—Gen. George S. Patton

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—Tom Peters
“Management is about arranging and
telling. Leadership is about nurturing
and enhancing.”

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“Part of leadership is knowing when to
go ahead with a decision that’s within
your authority because you’re really
convinced it’s the right thing, even if
other people don’t understand it at that
point." —Dr. Ingrid Mattson

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“Leaders think and talk about the
solutions. Followers think and talk about
the problems.”
—Brian Tracy

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“Leadership should be more
participative than directive, more
enabling than performing.”
—Mary D. Poole

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“There are three essentials to
leadership: humility, clarity and courage”
—Fuchan Yuan

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“I start with the premise that the
function of leadership is to produce
more leaders, not more followers.”
—Ralph Nader

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“People buy into the leader before they
buy into the vision.”
—John Maxwell

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“You manage things; you lead people.”
—Grace Murray Hopper

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“The art of leadership is saying no, not
saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”
—Tony Blair

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“The task of leadership is not to put
greatness into humanity, but to elicit it,
for the greatness is already there.”
—Henry Kissinger

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“The key to successful leadership today
is influence, not authority.”
—Ken Blanchard

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“Outstanding leaders go out of their
way to boost the self-esteem of their
personnel. If people believe in
themselves, it's amazing what they can
accomplish.”
—Sam Walton

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“Leadership is the capacity to transform
vision into reality.”
—Warren G. Bennis

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“Great leaders are not defined by the
absence of weakness, but rather by the
presence of clear strengths.”
—John Zenger

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“The best leader is not one who has the
most followers, but one who creates the
most leaders.”
—Stephanie Courtillier

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“Great leaders are almost always
simplifiers, who can cut through
argument, debate and doubt to offer a
solution everybody can understand.”
—Gen. Colin Powell

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“Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to
manage and manipulate people.
Inventories can be managed but people
must be led.”
—Ross Perot

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“As we look ahead into the next century,
leaders will be those who empower
others.”
—Bill Gates

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“What you do has far greater impact
than what you say.”
—Stephen Covey

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“To lead people, walk beside them. As
for the best leaders, the people do not
notice their existence … When the best
leader’s work is done, the people say,
‘We did it ourselves!’”
—Lao Tzu

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“No man will make a great leader who
wants to do it all himself, or to get all
the credit for doing it.”
—Andrew Carnegie

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“Innovation distinguishes between a
leader and a follower.”
—Steve Jobs

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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.”
—Benjamin Hooks

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“The task of the leader is to get his
people from where they are to where
they have not been.”
—Henry Kissinger

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“You do not lead by hitting people over
the head. That’s assault, not leadership.”
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Leadership is influence.”
—John C. Maxwell

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“If your actions create a legacy that
inspires others to dream more, learn
more, do more and become more, then,
you are an excellent leader."
—Dolly Parton

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“To lead you must first listen with an
understanding heart and then act with a
decisive mind."
—Shannon Pee

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“Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.”
—John F. Kennedy

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“The ability to learn is the most
important quality a leader can have.”
—Padmasree Warrior

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“Education is the mother of leadership.”
—Wendell Willkie

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“The growth and development of
people is the highest calling of
leadership.”
—Harvey Firestone

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“Before you are a leader, success is all
about growing yourself. When you
become a leader, success is all about
growing others.”
—Jack Welch

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“If your actions inspire others to dream
more, learn more, do more and become
more, you are a leader.”
—John Quincy Adams

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“Give light and people will find the
way.”
— Ella Baker

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topic of leadership was curated
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