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Unable to rally the troops or ignite the fire within your
soul? Maybe taking
a gander at these offbeat quotes can get you rolling like
a true leader
again. Enjoy!
"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone.
You develop the
funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."
- Elaine Agather, CEO for the Dallas, TX region of JPMorgan
Chase
"The very essence of leadership is that you have to
have vision. You can't
blow an uncertain trumpet."
- Theodore M. Hesburgh, President Emeritus of the University
of Notre-Dame
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
- Malcolm Muggeridge, author and satirist
"You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't
sit on it for long."
- Boris Yeltsin, first president of the Russian Federation
"Safety first has been the motto of the human race for
half a million years;
but it has never been the motto of leaders. A leader must
face danger. He
must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm."
- Herbert N. Casson, author
"I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it
has been."
- Wayne Gretzky, hockey player
"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead
dog, the scenery never
changes."
- Lewis Grizzard, writer and humorist
"Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and
uncritical lovers."
- John Gardner, novelist
"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite
capacity to not know what
can't be done."
- Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
"The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not
rude; be kind, but not
weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy;
be humble, but
not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without
folly."
- Jim Rohn, speaker and author
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