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"Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing"
Colin Powell, Statesman
"We found that the most exciting environments that treated people very well are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... Excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments"
Tom Peters, Businessman
"Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions"
Bo Bennett, Businessman
"I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome"
Julius Caesar, Leader
"I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan"
Benazir Bhutto, Leader
"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses"
Mario Cuomo, Politician
"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil"
Emily Dickinson, Poet
"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
"We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done"
Wilma Mankiller, Statesman
"Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right"
Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist
"In my position, you have to read when you want to write, and to talk when you would like to read"
Catherine the Great, Royalty
"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right"
Ziggy Marley, Musician
"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going"
Joe Namath, Athlete
"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them"
John C. Maxwell, Clergyman
"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself"
Robert E. Lee, General
"Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them, and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House"
Donald Rumsfeld, Politician
"I am the state"
Louis XIV, Royalty
"I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team"
Lee Iacocca, Businessman
"Great causes and little men go ill together"
Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions"
Harold S. Geneen, Businessman
"Politics is a game of power; the more power you have, the more successful your policies will be"
Wilhelm II, Statesman
"When placed in command - take charge"
Norman Schwarzkopf, Soldier
"Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
"I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election"
Pervez Musharraf, Statesman
"Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all"
Alexander the Great, Leader
"Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
"The presidency is an independent office and the Irish people whom I appreciate so much and I take with such responsibility have given a very clear mandate on a very clear set of ideas to me, as the ninth president"
Michael D. Higgins, Politician
"Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need and clamor for a leader"
Hermann Hesse, Novelist
"Leadership is not what you preach. It's what you tolerate"
Jocko Willink, Soldier
"Great men are usually the products of their times, and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history"
John Moody, Businessman
"One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders, even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers"
James Humes, Lawyer
"Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as well as dish it out. That's the only way you're going to get respect from the players"
Larry Bird, Coach
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses"
James K. Polk, President
"I want volunteers, not hostages"
Mike Tomlin, Coach
"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity"
Alcaeus, Poet
"Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges"
Thomas W. Higginson, Clergyman
"It is not enough to receive support, no matter how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential"
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao, Politician
"I'd rather be running the game than playing it"
Steven Brust, Author
"Any politician who wants to run for president will come to me in a few years"
Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman
"My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people"
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty
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