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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents. (Babangida Ibrahim)
We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. (Babangida Ibrahim)
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The person who has no enemies has no followers. (Babangida Ibrahim)
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Among the blind the one eyed is king. (Babangida Ibrahim)
An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag. (Babangida Ibrahim)
When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The right man comes at the right time. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself. (Babangida Ibrahim)
You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The penalty of leadership is loneliness. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. (Babangida Ibrahim)
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. (Babangida Ibrahim)
The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly. (Babangida Ibrahim)
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. (Babangida Ibrahim)
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