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Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
Bernie Sanders
War
Class
Political
Greed
Elsewhere
Corporate
Destroying
Moral
Leaders
Policies
Wage
Wall
Wall Street
America
Middle
Middle Class
Against
Us
Billionaires
Let Us
Whose
Street
The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Day
Peace
People
World
Some
Give
Leaders
Genuinely
Going
Want
Them
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells
Fire
Vanish
Lead
Leaders
Lit
As Far As
Ashes
Far
Then
Should
Choke
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
James Humes
Leadership
Mind
Leader
Active
Secret
Never
Leaders
Observers
Passive
Off
Turns
Even
Spectators
The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don't have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven't had that fear.
Kobe Bryant
Leadership
Fear
Strike
Topic
Nerve
Touch
Touchy
Throughout
Had
Fail
Leaders
Because
Years
Lot
Bravery
Chord
Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan
Peace
Own
Intimidate
Abroad
Troops
Leaders
Missions
Armies
Because
Send
Refuse
African
Many
Keeping
Need
The basic skills of leaders are always the same: be driven by a deeper purpose, be a human being, have a passion for what you do, and it's also about hard work and ethics.
Paul Polman
Work
Hard Work
You
Human Being
Passion
Ethics
About
Purpose
Driven
Leaders
Also
Always
Same
Human
Being
Skills
Hard
Deeper
Basic
Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.
Robert Mugabe
You
People
Party
Way
Properly
Leaders
Democratic
Democratic Party
Want
Grooming
Successor
Inheritance
Appointed
By The People
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm.
Sebastian Coe
Inspirational
Leadership
Respect
Trust
Inspire
Focus
Enthusiasm
About
Someone
Only
Mentality
Purpose
Winning
Leaders
Half-Hearted
Order
Hard
Who
Need
In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.
Thomas Sowell
Blame
Hate
People
Problems
Other
Those
Followers
Various
Leaders
Countries
Economically
Times
Behind
Taught
Groups
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
Walter Cronkite
Enough
Our
Selecting
Leaders
Perform
Well
Well Enough
Educated
Act
Necessary
We're the only species who follow unstable leaders. This is true - it has little to do with America - around the world, pack leaders are unstable. Animals don't follow that.
Cesar Millan
World
Animals
Follow
Only
Leaders
True
Unstable
Around
America
Pack
Little
Who
Species
Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.
Daniel Kahneman
Challenges
Risks
People
Political
Taking Risks
Military
Our
Our Lives
Seeking
Inventors
Entrepreneurs
Shaping
Leaders
Taking
Make
Make A Difference
Got
Optimistic
Role
Difference
Where
Decisions
Average
Average People
Disproportionate
Lives
Play
Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports to you. Leaders also need to provide the direction, energy, encouragement and inspiration for each person who reports directly to the leader as well as for the overall organization.
David Petraeus
Leadership
You
People
Organization
Leader
Encouragement
Energy
Direction
Directly
Inspiration
Individual
Individual Sport
Leaders
Overall
Also
Sport
Well
Provide
Person
Reports
Who
Each
Need
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
David Simon
Game
Change
Progress
Political
Joke
Everything
Soldiers
Cosmic
Rational
Adult
Foot
Leaders
Journalism
Instruments
Policy
Without
Makes
Becomes
Political Leaders
Affirmative
Very
Viable
Bureaucrats
Human
Useful
Human Progress
Why
Coherent
Suggestion
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.
Don Yaeger
Best
Business
Sports
Focus
Tough
Energy
Those
Tough Decisions
Winning
Crucial
Leaders
Most
Make
Greatest
Situations
Decisions
Turning
Who
Our leaders pay lip service to the freedoms that democracy provides while actually supporting an economic structure that imprisons its citizens under more and more debt.
Jacque Fresco
Service
Democracy
Pay
Our
Citizens
Structure
More
More And More
Economic
Leaders
Supporting
Freedoms
Provides
Debt
Lip
Lip Service
While
Actually
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
John C. Maxwell
Good
People
Leader
Relate
About
Leaders
Feel
Well
Make
Confident
Themselves
Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That's not a guess, it's a guarantee. With pride, it's not a matter of 'if' we will fall, but 'when.' There are no exceptions.
John C. Maxwell
Pride
Matter
Will
Fall
Meet
Guess
Exceptions
Fail
Leaders
Demise
Prune
Who
Guarantee
I worry that business leaders are more interested in material gain than they are in having the patience to build up a strong organization, and a strong organization starts with caring for their people.
John Wooden
Patience
Business
People
Strong
Organization
Build
Starts
Caring
Worry
Having
More
Leaders
Material
Up
Than
Gain
Interested
Business Leaders
In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
Ken Blanchard
Today
People
Power
Leader
Past
Solely
Must
Boss
Lead
Leaders
Longer
Partners
In The Past
Based
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
Kurt Vonnegut
Depression
War
Time
Great
World
Great Depression
Leaders
Another
Sure
Coming
Oh
Where
World War
Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
Lance Secretan
Love
Saying
Heart
Trust
Feeling
Mouth
Same Thing
Thinking
Alignment
Consistently
Followers
Head
Leaders
Feet
Builds
Doing
Authenticity
Same
Thing
Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.
Myles Munroe
Leadership
Character
Balance
Protection
Safety
Important
Leaders
Most
Without
The Most Important
There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.
Pope Francis
Attitude
Change
Financial
Political
Benefit
Everyone
Would
Economic
Part
Leaders
Nevertheless
Along
Courageous
Lines
Political Leaders
Reform
Turn
Ethical
Produce
Require
Need
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader
Leadership
Followers
More
Leaders
Produce
Premise
Function
Start
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