"The penalty of leadership is loneliness."

Robinson, H. Wheeler on leadership
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"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone."

Marcos, Ferdinand E. on leadership   

"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."

Kennedy, John F. on leadership
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"To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way."

Riley, Pat on obsession   

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

Covey, Stephen R. on management
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"The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet."

Hesburgh, Theodore M. on leadership
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"Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people --that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Drucker, Peter F. on leadership
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"Leadership is action, not position."

Mcgannon, Donald H. on leadership
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"One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers."

Humes, James on leadership
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