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- What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
- Roland Barthes, Esprit
- Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die.
- James L. Hayes, Memos for Management: Leadership, 1983
- Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
- Harold Geneen
- The art of leading, in operations large or small, is the art of dealing with humanity, of working diligently on behalf of men, of being sympathetic with them, but equally, of insisting that they make a square facing toward their own problems.
- S. L. A. Marshall, Men Against Fire, 1947
- I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader (1934 - )
- It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
- Latin proverb
- Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground.
- Unknown
- All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797), Speech on the Conciliation of America
- In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
- Art Spander
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