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Any fool can buy talent; only real leaders develop it. -- Margaret Heffernan
You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls. -- Chris Christie
We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means. -- Tom Coburn
I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America. -- Bobby Jindal
The real leaders cannot appear in the peaceful time; nor can the serious opposition emerge from within the peaceful atmosphere. Without an open confrontation, there is no opposition! -- Vladimir Bukovsky
The real leaders of tomorrow are already working on the next big idea, the one that will drive growth into future. They're already far beyond the ideas that created today's results. -- Roger Enrico
For a large corporation to be effective, it must be simple. For an organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity, real leaders do not clutter. -- Jack Welch
Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track. -- Paul Ryan
I like being a leader in real life. -- Donnie Wahlberg
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. -- Pete Hoekstra
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way. -- Henry Miller
When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader. -- Mary J. Blige
I believe change should come from the real leader, who can make a real peace, and his name is God. -- Ashraf Barhom
Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time. -- Robin S. Sharma
America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. -- Robert Reich
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. -- David Suzuki
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. -- James MacGregor Burns
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister. -- Neil Kinnock
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed. -- Natan Sharansky
Do you have a real interest in people who work for you? Most good leaders have that - it's hard to get someone to follow you if they feel like you hate 'em. -- Ben Horowitz
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader. -- Oriana Fallaci
There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. -- Adam Rickitt
It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set. -- Norm Coleman
Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand. -- Anita Borg
Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America, when what black America needs isn't a leader - it is education. Giving speeches and marching - that's not the concept that brings about real freedom, equality and justice. -- Don Yaeger
In order for our country and economy to get on the right track again, we need a leader who understands how the real economy works and has the vision to fundamentally change Washington. That leader is Mitt Romney. No other candidate in the field possesses his lifetime of success in both the private sector and as a governor. -- Timothy Griffin
I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems. -- Jack Welch
Bosses push, Leaders pull. Real leadership is servant leadership. -- Dave Ramsey
Female leaders are more oriented toward real and long-lasting results of their policies. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
Knowing what matters most, what I call "being real," is the alpha and omega for leaders. -- Stewart D. Friedman
That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence. -- Daniel Kahneman
Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes. -- Joseph C. Rost
There's a real sweet spot between challenge and hope - leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view. -- Marshall Ganz
Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress. -- Alan Hirsch
Leaders believe that falling is not failing, but refusal to rise up after falling is the real form of failure! -- Israelmore Ayivor
People trust those leaders who show real results of their work, rather than those who just talk about the results. -- Dalia Grybauskaite
What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone's wish is to become a leader....Let us become a real servant instead. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible. -- Barack Obama
While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power. -- Debashis Chatterjee
Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. -- Jon Katzenbach
It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous. -- Khem Veasna
Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye. -- Dalai Lama
If you want real, significant, sustainable change, you need talented, committed local line leaders. If the line manager is not innovating, then innovation is not going to occur. -- Peter Senge
I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it. -- Don Cheadle
I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by an elected or non-elected group of leaders. -- Samuel P. Huntington
Only the mediocre die always at their best. Real leaders are always improving - and raising their bar on how superbly they can perform and how quickly they can move. -- Jean Giraudoux

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