"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues." George Will |
"Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
-- Mark Twain
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"As a leader...your principal job is to create an operating environment where others can do great things." --Richard Teerlink
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"Don't fight the problem, decide it."
--George C. Marshall
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"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do."
- Voltaire
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"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men"
--Seneca
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"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience"
--Benjamin Franklin
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"Glass, china, and reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended."
--Benjamin Franklin
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"I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself."
-- Gen. Robert E. Lee
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"I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do." --George C. Marshall
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"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
--Theodore Roosevelt
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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends".
- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."
-- John Steinbeck
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"Leaders learn to lead as apprentices in the classroom of experience with senior leaders." --Ray Blunt
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"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy."
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf.
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"Leadership is a process of giving purpose (meaningful direction) to collective effort, and causing willing effort to be expended to achieve purpose" (Jacobs & Jacques, 1990) |
"Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow". (Kouzes & Posner, 2002). |
"Leadership is the ability of developing and communicating a vision to a group of people that will make that vision true" (Valenzuela, 2007) |
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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Leadership is the behavior of an individual... directing the activities of a group toward a shared goal". (Hemphill & Coons, 1957) |