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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership Quotes
What it actually takes to lead well.
These leadership quotes come largely from voices in education reform, arguing that leadership, not technology, is what determines whether students succeed, and that building leadership capacity in a country takes sustained investment rather than shortcuts. See our Speeches for longer-form takes on the same theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the 'Today' programme and item four on the news was: 'The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.' I lay there thinking that's interesting, then I realised it was me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a legislator. I've never been a lobbyist. I've never worked a session before, but based on my conversations with leadership in the Senate and the House, I get the general sense that people want to work together to make things happen.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management books, like 'Leadership' by Rudolph Giuliani. I didn't take it as an encouraging sign.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I see with the utility industry is, more and more, we're taking up this belief that our workforce, our leadership ranks, our board should be reflective of the community that we serve.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
- Blessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Californians are blessed with the remarkable leadership of Gov. Jerry Brown, who... has led our state to firm fiscal footing and brought us to the enviable position of dreaming - and achieving - big dreams again.
- Ceaseless
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- Nov 07, 2020
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020