#leadership

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#am #follow #his #hope #i

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

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One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. ↗

— Arnold H. Glasow

#ability #becomes #before #emergency #leadership

Every silver lining has a cloud. ↗

— Mary Kay Ash

#cloud #every #lining #silver

Leadership demands that we make tough choices. ↗

— Alan Autry

#demands #leadership #make #tough #tough choices

A leader is a dealer in hope. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#dealer #hope #leader

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#assume #come #designated #growth #hand

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#anybody #excuse #expects #higher #higher standard

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#born #certain #charismatic #dangerous #either

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

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