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“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”  Bill Gates

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision.  You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”  Theodore M. Hesburgh

“High sentiments always win in the end, The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time.  When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”  George Orwell

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”  John F. Kennedy

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”  John Quincy Adams

“Positive reinforcement creates a world from which people are not likely to defect and which they are likely to defend, promote and improve.”  B. F. Skinner

“It’s a funny thing about life:  If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”  W. Somerset Maugham

“You can’t get there if you do not know where there is.”  Teresa A. Thompson

“When leaders see people as human beings who are more productive when they are having fun, it makes all the difference.”  Amy Lyman

“We too often get wrapped up in process over goal.  A recipe is not the food.”  Alan Stafford

“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.”  Walter Lippman

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing.”  Albert Schweitzer

“You only have one chance to be great today so choose to be great.”  Teresa A. Thompson

“Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”  Harold R. McAlindon

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pcik good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”  Theodore Roosevelt

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”  John Buchan

“Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are right.” Henry Ford

“You will like yourself better when you have the approval of your conscience.”   Orison Swett Marden

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.”   Peter Drucker

“When it comes to critics, remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.”   Tony Randall

“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.”   John Powell, S.J.

“Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.”   Will Rogers

“Give me a stock clerk who wants to work and I will give you a person who will make history.  Give me a person who does not want to work and I will give you a stock clerk.”   J. C. Penney

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.”   Anee Morrow Lindbergh

“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”  Paul Harvey

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel.  If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”   Sam Walton

“The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.”   Bobby Knight

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”   Winston Churchill

“I really believe that individuals are capable of doing a lot more than they believe they can do.  Given the right environment, you can get surprising results.  I believe all of us can do 10, 20, 30 times more than we might think.”   James Burke

“I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.”   Woodrow Wilson

“Winners are like teabags.  You never see their true strength until they’re in hot water.”

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”   Andrew Carnegie

“The way employees treat customers reflects the manner in which they’re being treated by management.”   James A. Perkins

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