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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas Carlyle
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.
Thomas Kempis
I've always found that the speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
Lee Iacocca
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Robert Lindner
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
General George Patton
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
Character matters leadership descends from character.
Rush Limbaugh
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters
Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.
Proverb
Great leaders understand human behavior rather than the cybernetics of any function.
James Schorr
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry Kissinger
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.
Warren Bennis
In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes.
John Erskine, The Complete Life
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux, Man's Hope