“I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.”
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“I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't. Hey, it made me a better leader: you have to take a lot of people's needs into account you have to look down the road. Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.”
“My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.”
“The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.”
“I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed.”
“I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.”
“I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences.”
“Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.”
“The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.”
“It's really necessary for the United States to continue to give strong leadership to the Middle East peace process, supported by European countries at the same time.”
“Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.”
“Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.”
“I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.”
“Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.”
“I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.”
“It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.”
“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”
“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”
“If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.”
“Leadership is about being a servant first.”
“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
“But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.”
“Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.”
“Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.”