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Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.
Chinese Proverb
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A group of people goes to disorder when a servant left.
Herman Hesse
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There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
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If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
Katharine Hepburn
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Think and say We, not I.
Peter Drucker
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
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Those who tell the stories rule the society.
Plato
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Don't find fault, find a remedy.
Henry Ford
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Smart people don't think others are stupid.
Derek Sivers
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A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Ovid
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
Margaret Drabble
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The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
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Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!
Alexandre A. Ledru-Rollin
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When placed in command, take charge.
Norman Schwarzkopf
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When the best leader's work is done the people say We did it ourselves!
Lao-Tsu
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Drowning in data, yet starved of information.
Ruth Stanat
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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Patton
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Learn to say "I don't know.", "What do you think?", "Please, help me."
Gerry Geek
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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer
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Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.
Lawrence M. Miller
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Hell, there are no rules here--we're trying to accomplish something.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Swope
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I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.
Sean Parker
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If you think you can do a thing or that you cannot do a thing, in either case you are right.
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In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
T. Jefferson
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Bernard Baruch
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
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The best example of leadership, is leadership by example.
Jerry McClain
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The great leader is seen as servant first.
R.K. Greenleaf, L. C. Spears
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Processes don't do work, people do.
John Seely Brown
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
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There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Chuck Tanner
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We know not where our dreams will take us, but we can probably see quite clearly where we'll go without them.
Marilyn Grey
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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
John C Maxwell
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A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley
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Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with the important matters.
Albert Einstein
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The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care.
General Colin Powell
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. . . . This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.
Peter F. Drucker
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To paraphrase W. Somerset Maugham, "There are three rules for creating good leaders. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
Lee Thayer
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Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
Vince Lombardi
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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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Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.
Henry Mintzberg
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A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
John Quincy Adams
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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
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What you can't imagine you can't do. What you can imagine, you can find a way to do.