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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can not find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here is the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they do not want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it Does not matter if you are a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

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

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Character matters leadership descends from character.

I am sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

The secret to understanding me is, I am not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I have always tried to go with solutions. You know, I have always tried to say, here is how we get our economy growing, here is why we get our debt under control. That is what Mitt Romney is offering.

What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago - is not it about time he assumed responsibility?

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.