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To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?

To do something really big, let go of your ego, and get ready to be part of a team.

To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.

To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

To have a successful career, you have to approach it as an entrepreneur, even if you are working for someone else. Your career is your own private business. You have to market yourself and your abilities and knowledge just as you would a product or service.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.

Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

To put up with. . . distortions and to stick to one's guns come what may - this is the. . . gift of leadership.

To succeed, one must be creative and persistent.

True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

Total teachers aren't perfect teachers.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

True leaders are the first to admit that they don't know everything and that they need help.

True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise. The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is. The Tao nourishes by not forcing. By not dominating, the Master leads.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.

Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more.

Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. Persevere and get it done.

Turn off your mind, and focus on what you've got to do - task at hand.

T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you.

True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing.

Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict.

Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. And our businesses have been built for the last 150 years very much on that kind of motivational scheme.