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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

An election goes on every minute of the business day across the counters of hundreds of thousands of stores and shops where the customers state their preferences and determine which company and which product shall be the leader today and which shall lead tomorrow.

An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others more conscious of it, the leader communicates an awareness of process to the group, making them more aware of their energies and options. One important principle is to keep track of who has not spoken. ... It's also important to notice when people do speak out but are not heard. Effective leaders practice patience, reminding themselves to wait and observe, remembering that there's always more going on in a group than we're consciously aware of.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

Another idea that is changing is that the leader must be one who can make quick decisions. The leader to-day is often one who thinks out his decisions very slowly.

An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.

Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

Any time you can degrade or take away the top leadership of an organization, it's a positive step forward.

Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.

Apart from Jesus Christ you are spiritually bankrupt.

A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them epithets of shame or folly ought not to be trusted with leadership, for they will be men hot for power and revenge, certain of right and wrong.

A real leader spends his time fixing the problem instead of finding who to blame.

A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Arrogance is the conjoined twin of ignorance.

Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

As a leader, you're probably not doing a good job unless your employees can do a good impression of you when you're not around.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

As a leader you should always start with where people are before you try to take them to where you want them to go.

As a leader, you will never get ahead until your people are behind you.

A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals he soon runs dry. This is one of the greatest responsibilities of sales leadership.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.

As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

A serious athlete to me is one who is committed to excellence at any level, at any age, in any endeavor and in either sex. This commitment begins with a dream and a sense of talent and skill and determination to make that dream come true.

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

A small step in a good direction.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.