All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
Eric Hoffer
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DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers -- not their minds.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Great leaders excel in maximizing the potentials of their followers
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True lea...
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ANUJ SOMANY Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.
ROY T. BENNETT Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
TOM PETERS Leaders take the pleasure to always keep their words and the followers often seek the pleasure in th...
ANUJ SOMANY Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
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MANGO WODZAK Good leaders have vision and inspire others to help them turn vision into reality. Great leaders hav...
ROY BENNETT False leaders create followers by lying.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN False leaders use manipulation and coercion to gain followers.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally...
THOMAS SOWELL Good followers do not become good leaders.
LAURENCE J. PETER All adults should strive to be more like children.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Leaders inform, inspire and improve people. They educate, empower and enrich the value of their foll...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders.
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GARRY WILLS The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leaders and followers... Leaders, fol...
GARY WILLS The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
RALPH NADER Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders.
SOURCE UNKNOWN War's always the same! Children starve, women suffer, men lose their fortunes or turn into beasts!
KENNETH ROBERTS Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by th...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy t...
SIGMUND FREUD A man who tells you to follow him will turn his followers into his company, while a true leader who ...
SUZY KASSEM The situation could have gotten out of hand. Church leaders should guard against such actions that m...
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JOHN HOLT Just like in the real world. There are followers and leaders. Here, everyone is watching to see what...
JASON PISTORESI Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. It's why the whole world is falling...
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GREG VAUGHN If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders
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CARL HONORE Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
CHE GUEVARA Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!
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RALPH NADER I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more follo...
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ALCEE HASTINGS True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders.
ROBERT TOWNSEND True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers not the enrichment of the leaders.
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
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MAYUR RAMGIR As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfe...
ROY BARNES Leaders don’t call unhappy followers “ungrateful people”. They see them as “lesson teachers�...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
MARK BUCHANAN It is tragically true we are facing more and more heathenism in our society today. It all starts fro...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the org...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Strive to follow your dreams. Don’t let your dream remains as dream.Give it shape of reality by fe...
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CAPT. DWAYNE READY Clearly, we are courting tragedy by turning a blind eye to marketing gimmicks plainly intended to tu...
ELIZABETH ESTY We were still children and residing in the mosque from morning to evening. We were about to turn int...
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ANYAELE SAM CHIYSON You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you wil...
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LINDA BLAIR When the witch is done away with at the end, all the gingerbread kids turn back into children, so th...
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DUOP CHAK WUOL We strive to help them maintain their independence.
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