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“Leadership is everyone’s business.”

James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

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“Good coaches also ask good questions. ... her personal motto is ‘Ask, don’t tell.’ She learned it from Peter Drucker, who said, ‘The leader of the future asks; the leader of the past tells.”

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“Challenge is the opportunity for greatness.”

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“You have to spend more of today thinking more about tomorrow if your future is going to be an improvement over the present.”

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“Even though leaders have grand visions about the future, they get there one step at a time, building momentum as well as the strength and resolve to continue forward along the journey.”

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“The Kouzes-Posner First Law of Leadership: If you don’t believe the messenger, you won’t believe the message.”

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“People commit to causes not to plans.”

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“We’ve also found that in the best organizations, everyone, regardless of title or position, is encouraged to act like a leader.”

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“The first step, indeed the most important step, is the recognition that fear permeates any business. Fear is to be taken as a warning sign, not as a guide for action or inaction. Once fear is recognized, it can be deconstructed and reappraised.”

Gregory Berns Ph.D.

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“So although fear is the great inhibitor of action, its location in the brain is well known. ... rather than people needing to avoid the situations that cause fear or the circumstances that make them stress out, neuroscience is showing how the rational part of the brain can regain control over such toxic emotions like fear.”

Gregory Berns Ph.D.

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“One who fears the future, who fears failure, limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.”

Henry Ford

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“Think of fear like alcohol. It impairs your judgment. You shouldn’t make any decisions while under its influence.”

Gregory Berns Ph.D.

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“It is not possible to foster iconoclastic thinking when fear is pervasive.”

Gregory Berns Ph.D.

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“The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Rosa Parks

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“And for those who urge entrepreneurs to never give up? Charlatans. Sometimes you have to give up. Sometimes knowing when to give up, when to try something else, is genius. Giving up doesn’t mean stopping. Don’t ever stop.”

Phil Knight

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“We’re also finishing construction on a new athletic facility, which we plan to dedicate to our mothers, Dot and Lota. On a plaque next to the entrance will go an inscription: Because mothers are our first coaches.”

Phil Knight

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“We’d kick around this question of ultimate goals. This question of winning and losing. Money wasn’t our aim, we agreed. Money wasn’t our end game. But whatever our aim or end, money was the only means to get there. More money than we had on hand.”

Phil Knight

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“Fear of failure, I thought, will never be our downfall as a company. Not that any of us thought we wouldn’t fail; in fact we had every expectation that we would. But when we did fail, we had faith that we’d do it fast, learn from it, and be better for it.”

Phil Knight

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“Once again I’m telling a roomful of people that something is possible, that something can be successful, when in fact I don’t really know. I’m speaking from theory, faith, and bluster, like every groom. And every bride. It would be up to me and Penny to prove the truth of what we said that day.”

Phil Knight

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