Peter Drucker - Quotes

 Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. 

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Napoleon Bonaparte - Quotes

 You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse. 

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Sister Act - Quotes

 Reverend Mother:
Girl groups? Boogie woogie on the piano? What were you thinking?
Delores:
I was thinkin' more like Vegas, y'know, get some butts in the seats.
Reverend Mother:
And what next? Popcorn? Curtain calls? This is not a theater or a casino.
Delores:
Yeah, but that's the problem. See, people like going to theaters, and they like going to casinos, but they don't like coming to church. Why? Because it's a drag. But we could change all that, see? We could pack this joint.
Reverend Mother:
Through blasphemy? You have corrupted the entire choir! [in the hall, Monsignor O'Hara enters]
Monsignor O'Hara:
Excuse me. [he listens to the argument between Delores and Reverend Mother]
Delores:
How can you say that? I worked my butt of with these women! They've given up their free time to do this, and they're GOOD! I mean, sister, we could, we could ROCK this place!
Reverend Mother:
OUT of the question! As of tomorrow, Mary Lazarus resumes her leadership of the choir. [Monsignor knocks on the door]
Reverend Mother:
COME IN!
 

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The Postman - Quotes

 General Bethlehem:
Law one. You will obey orders without question. Law two: Punishment shall be swift. Law three: Mercy is for the weak. Four: Terror will defeat reason. Five: Your allegiance is to the clan. Six: Justice can be dictated. Seven: Any clansman may challenge for leadership of the clan. Law eight: There is only one penalty. Death.
 

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Colin Powell - Quotes

 The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. 

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Peter David - Quotes

 That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say,  

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Thomas Paine - Quotes

 Lead, follow, or get out of the way. 

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John Holt - Quotes

 Leaders are not, as we are often led to think, people who go along with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see, whether anyone is following them.  

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Barack Obama - Quotes

 To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. 

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Colin Powell - Quotes

 Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. 

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George W. Bush - Quotes

 I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office. 

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Laozi - Quotes

 I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. 

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Abraham Lincoln - Quotes

 Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody. 

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Ken Kesey - Quotes

 I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one. 

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Thomas S. Monson - Quotes

 Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody.  

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John Grisham - Quotes

 The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and especially when he would need someone to blame, he opened up the decisionmaking process and included Critz. 

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Whoopi Goldberg - Quotes

 We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. 

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Down Periscope - Quotes

 Adm. Dean Winslow:
I will not be able to give you your Los Angeles class boat
Lt. Comd. Dodge:
[sighs] Yes, sir.
Adm. Dean Winslow:
You will instead be given a new *Seawolf* class nuclear sub, and will attend its launch on friday. And you'll be given a crew consistent with your leadership and tactical abilities
Lt. Comd. Dodge:
Thank you, sir. But I'll have to decline
Adm. Dean Winslow:
Decline?
Lt. Comd. Dodge:
I would not be in line for such a promotion, without the help of my present crew. I could not in good conscious take command without them.
 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

 Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. 

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Quotes

 Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. 

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Rosalynn Carter - Quotes

 A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. 

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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones - Quotes

 
[first title cards]
Title card/crawl::
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Title card/crawl::
There is unrest in the Galactic Senate. Several thousand solar systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic. This separatist movement, under the leadership of the mysterious Count Dooku, has made it difficult for the limited number of Jedi Knights to maintain peace and order in the galaxy. Senator Amidala, the former Queen of Naboo, is returning to the Galactic Senate to vote on the critical issue of creating an ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC to assist the overwhelmed Jedi...
 

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Henry David Thoreau - Quotes

 If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. 

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Peter Drucker - Quotes

 People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are. 

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Albert Schweitzer - Quotes

 Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. 

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Marc A. Pitman - Quotes

 Life's short. Live passionately. 

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John Adams 4 - Quotes

 If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. 

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Dwight D. Eisenhower - Quotes

 Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. 

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George S. Patton Jr. - Quotes

 Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. 

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Quotes

 The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. 

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Rosa Parks - Quotes

 I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people. 

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Joseph Campbell - Quotes

 A bit of advice

Given to a young Native American

At the time of his initiation:

As you go the way of life,

You will see a great chasm. Jump.

It is not as wide as you think. 

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James Gould Cozzens - Quotes

 Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader. 

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Laozi - Quotes

 A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him. Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, `We did this ourselves. 

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Eugene Victor Debs - Quotes

 I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it. 

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Brandon Sanderson - Quotes

 Personally, I like it much better when someone else does the decision making. That way you have legitimate grounds to whine and complain. I tend to find both whining and complaining quite interesting and amusing, though sometimes--unfortunately--it's hard to choose which one of the two I want to do.

Sigh. LIfe can be so tough sometimes. 

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Queen Elizabeth I - Quotes

 And therefore I am come amongst you at this time, not as for my recreation or sport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live or die amongst you all; to lay down, for my God, and for my kingdom, and for my people, my honour and my blood, even the dust. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too. 

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Paul Orfalea - Quotes

 Accountants are in the past, managers are in the present, and leaders are in the future. 

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Andy Krikorian - Quotes

 Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. 

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Tom Peters - Quotes

 If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.  

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Woodrow Wilson - Quotes

 You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. 

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Laozi - Quotes

 The ruler attains wholeness in the correct governance of the people. 

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Kay Ballard - Quotes

 Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society. 

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Richard Adams - Quotes

 At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him. 

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