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"The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it."	Elaine Agather
"Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it."	Marian Anderson
"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."	Margaret Atwood
"It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion."	Max Beerbohm
"Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself."	Robert F. Bennett
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control."	Robert F. Bennett
"The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom--as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need."	Warren G. Bennis
"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."	Warren G. Bennis
"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning."	Warren G. Bennis
"Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line."	Warren G. Bennis
"Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard."	Warren G. Bennis
"What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world of growing complexity leaders are increasingly dependent on their subordinates for good information, whether the leaders want to hear it or not. Followers who tell the truth and leaders who listen to it are an unbeatable combination."	Warren G. Bennis
"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. Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led."	Warren G. Bennis
"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."	Kenneth Hartley Blanchard
"There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two."	Bernd Brecher
"For aesthetics is the mother of ethics…. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens."	Joseph Brodsky
"Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room."	(Matthew) Heywood
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."	Andrew Carnegie
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be."	Rosalynn Smith Carter
"Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver."	Mark A. Clement
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