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• The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

  Max De Pree

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thank, Leader, Between, Responsibility, Last, Say, Servant, First, Reality, Define

• I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

  Richard Nixon

  Topics in History

  Tags in Leader, Change, Great, Think, Destiny

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  Irving Babbitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolution, Emerge, Leader, Destined

• The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

  Walter Lippmann

  Topics in Business, Genius

  Tags in Leader, Situation, Him, Successfully, Without, Good, Govern, Grace, Sense, Behind, Which, Leave, Common, Deal

• People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, People, Difference

• My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don’t you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don’t want to do it.

  Zhu Rongji

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Leader, Rage, Criticism

• Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Salary, Member, Mind

• The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

  Walter Lippmann

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conviction, Leader, Him, Carry, Other, Final, Behind, Will, Test, Leaves

• Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

  Tacitus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Qualities, Leader, Reason, Judgment

• If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  Barack Obama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Leader, Choice

• The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

  André Maurois

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Leaders, Lacking, Fitness, Clearly, Acknowledged, Leader, Quality, Whose, Questioned, Good, Most, Such, Being, Force, Important

• I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent.

  Tom Hanks

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Leader, Bent

• Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

  Steve Ballmer

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Leader, Globally, Product

• The best leaders… almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

  Tom Peters

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Best, Every

• A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

  Ralph Nader

  Topics in Power, Vision

  Tags in Inspires, Leader, Conviction, Energy

• A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boss, Leader, Party

• Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

  Toni Morrison

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Responsibility

• I believe that no man who holds a leader’s position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

  Mary Harris Jones

  Tags in Leader

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  Natan Sharansky

  Tags in Governs, Leader

• I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.

  Newt Gingrich

  Tags in Leader, Too Much