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True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportive audiences.

Reed Markham, PhD

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.

Peter McWilliams

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.

James Madison

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Vince Lombardi

Leadership is a noble calling. In addtion to meeting well-defined strategic objectives, leaders must also help their organizations make meaningful contributions to social issues, economic growth, and political stability. That's why effective organizational leadership plays a vital role in shaping our world.

Robert L. Joss

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Tom Peters

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Jack Welch

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Sloan Wilson

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal

Vincent Thomas

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

John Kotter

Good leaders must first become good servants.

Robert Greenleaf

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

Warren G. Bennis

Too many leaders act as if the sheep... their people... are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.

Ken Blanchard

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Henry A. Kissinger

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

Henry A. Kissinger

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

John Kotter

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Henry Kissinger

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Winston Churchill

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground

Winston Churchill

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services

Corazon Aquino

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