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  • We know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in. Uncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably, we seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.

  • Don't take too much advice.

  • Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.

    "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.
  • In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning

    Brother   War   Cities  
  • All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

    Crush   Revenge   Fire  
  • A great leader needs to love and respect people, and he needs to be comfortable with himself and with the world. He also needs to be able to forgive himself and others. In other words, a leader needs grace.

  • Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

    Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.
  • More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

  • Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.

  • I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  • Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.

    John P. Kotter (2012). “Matsushita Leadership”, p.1823, Simon and Schuster
  • Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

    Reality   Leader   Looks  
    Source: www.egonzehnder.com
  • Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men.

  • Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  • Do not follow where the path may lead.

  • Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.

    Believe   Giving   Leader  
    Twitter post from Feb 24, 2010
  • Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

    Twitter post from Feb 24, 2010
  • Leadership is all hype. We've had three great leaders in this century-Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

    Hype   Leader   Three  
  • A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  • My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.

  • Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

  • That's exactly what [Donald] Trump says, Putin is a great leader. We should love Putin. He has a high popular and everybody oh, fine, you guys - oh, that's terrific.

    Guy   Leader   Putin  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.

    Hans Finzel (2013). “The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make”, p.17, David C Cook
  • Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.

    Twitter post from Mar 18, 2016
  • I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

    Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)
  • There are many qualities of a great leader. Passion is one, empathy is another, listening is another, decisiveness is another. I think a great leader makes people feel comfortable, so that they feel that they're allowed to be stupid, they're not afraid to give their opinions.

    Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
  • The price that must be paid for mastery is discipline. No one achieves lasting success without it. So from the moment you awake each day, devote yourself to the perfection of whatever you pursue. Do this and you will achieve self-mastery. Achieve self-mastery and you will have the makings of a great leader... Discipline is all about cultivating powerful habits that become part of your lifestyle.

  • Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].

    Dream   Father   Past  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Great leaders do not see people for who they are, but who than can become. Further, the great leader compels those that follow them to become that man or woman of the future, likely exceeding the expectations of both.

  • Great leaders don't play by the existing rules.

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