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Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.

Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.

Good leaders don't tell people what to do, they give teams capability and inspiration.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good leadership means leading the way, not hectoring other people to do things your way.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

Good leaders understand that they are stewards. They must find the best people they can, giving them the opportunity to join in the journey developing them, and encouraging them to reach their potential. But they must hold on to people lightly. Those who start with you seldom finish with you.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Great leaders are paradoxical. They catalyze, rather control, the work of their teams. They have an overarching vision for the team but are not autocratic in the realization of this vision. Their eyes are open to whatever results occur-not just planned goals, because serendipity is a great innovator.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

Good leadership is pervasive, persuasive, and persistent. Bad leadership is poisoned with pedanticism, posturing, self-importance.

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

Good leaders must know how to reward those who succeed and know when to retrain, move, or fire ineffective staff.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Good sportsmanship we hail, we sing, It's always pleasant when you spot it. There's only one unhappy thing: You have to lose to prove that you've got it.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.

Granddaddy can pick up a phone and call anyone in the world and they will take his call. But he doesn't know it.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

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

Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

Great leaders and great organizations are good at seeing what most of us can’t see. They are good at giving us things we would never think of asking for.

Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.

Greatness follows those who lead the way.

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.

Grown men do not need leaders.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.

Hamas, also elected to governmental leadership in Palestine, includes the jihadists, people who have declared war on the United States of America and its ally, Israel.

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Harry is my elder brother. He is the wiser one who leads Percept, he shows us the path. My job is to run it, create the relationships, and run the business as profitably as I can. Harry acquires, merges, expands he is responsible for Percept's growth.

Having the capacity to lead is not enough. The leader must be willing to use it.

Healthy body, healthy mind and healthy spirit. A Votre Sante.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Helping to build a better-organized, fair and harmonious world: that idea lies at the heart of my conception of our country's role. Down through the centuries, France has provided answers to the great questions facing mankind. In continuing to do so, France is responding to a genuine demand, displaying leadership and influencing the course of events.

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

Here's a woman, a real pioneer for other women looking for careers in stand-up comedy. And talk about guts - she would come out here and sit in this chair and say some things that were unbelievable - where you would have to swallow pretty hard... but it was hilarious... the force of her comedy was overpowering.

Great leaders make leadership look so easy.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.