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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Zedong
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
Johann von Goethe
An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Men are lead by trifles.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
Theodore Hesburgh
Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
Tom Morris
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Warren G. Bennis
I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much.
Newt Gingrich
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Chris Patten
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
Sun Tzu
I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.
Michael Scheuer
Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.
Mitt Romney
Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
Proverb
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Thomas Fuller
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
Bertrand Russell
