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Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:54:26 +0000

It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
–Lyndon B. Johnson

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:54:15 +0000

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
–Vance Packard

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:54:06 +0000

The leader must know, must know that he knows, and must be able to make it abundantly clear to those about him that he knows.
–Clarence A. Randall

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:59 +0000

The actions of a responsible executive are contagious.
–Joe D. Batton

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:53 +0000

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
–Walter Lippmann

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:47 +0000

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change.
–Peter F. Drucker

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:40 +0000

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
–Harold S. Geneen

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:33 +0000

It is in times of difficulty that great nations, like great men, display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
–Napoleon Bonaparte

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:25 +0000

You do not lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.
–Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sara — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:53:18 +0000

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn’t controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
–Richard M. Nixon