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  • The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

    "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Basketball Legend and Kids' Book Author". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 16, 2012.
  • Trump respects people who are selfish about their country. Putin is a guy who is very selfish about Russia and about the Russian federation, and he understands the history of his country. You can't say, "I don't like you." You've got to respect him. He's a world leader.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • 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.
  • The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

  • During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away.

  • Vision with action can change the world.

  • Part of America's industrial problems is the aim of its corporate managers. Most American executives think they are in the business to make money, rather than products or service. The Japanese corporate credo, on the other hand, is that a company should become the world's most efficient provider of whatever product and service it offers. Once it becomes the world leader and continues to offer good products, profits follow.

    "Out Of The Crisis". Book by W. Edwards Deming, p. 99, 1982.
  • 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.

  • Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • 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.

  • Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  • Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

    Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on
  • In the near future, despite the development of alternative energy, when you look at the economics and environmental standards, then there's no other source of primary energy in the world than natural gas. Well, perhaps there is nuclear energy but there are also a lot of issues there and there are opponents of nuclear energy. Gas doesn't have those opponents. But there is a country that is, obviously, the world leader in gas reserves. That's our country, the Russian Federation.

  • President Bush bet his presidency-and America's world leadership-on the war in Iraq. Tragically, it looks as though he bit off more than the American people were willing to chew.

    War   Iraq   America  
  • The United States is the leader of the free world.

  • Leaders aren't born they are made.

  • The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them.

    Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated
  • Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

  • The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

  • Over the weekend it came out that the U.S. has been listening in on German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone since 2002. At this point, I feel like the only world leader our government DOESN'T listen to is President Obama.

  • You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  • Every human has a seed of greatness buried in a gift needed by the world.

  • If I was trying to destroy this country, what I would do is find a way to drive wedges between all the people, drive the debt to an unsustainable level, and then step off the stage as a world leader and let our enemies increase while we decreased our capacity as a military person. And that's what [Hillary Clinton] doing.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
  • You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

    Interview with Philip Scarpino, tobiascenter.iu.edu. January 6, 2009.
  • 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.

    "Managing People Is Like Herding Cats". Book by Warren G. Bennis, January 1997.
  • As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future.

    "OBAMA: 'We Are Not Going To Get A Deal' Without Raising Tax Rates". Interview with Julianna Goldman, www.businessinsider.com. December 4, 2012.
  • The evidence does look like this wasn't just a casual - world leaders don't just pick up the phone and call each other. It does appear that the Donald Trump phone call with the president of Taiwan was a deliberate move, a deliberately provocative move.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

    Leadership   Witty   Men  
  • The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media
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