You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people.

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"We have to recognize that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence."

- Cornel West

Love

"Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public."

- Cornel West

Love

"If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don’t want successful leaders. We want great leaders who love the people enough and respect the people enough to be unbought, unbound, unafraid, and unintimidated to tell the truth."

- Cornel West

Integrity

"We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence."

- Cornel West

Relationships

"It’s no accident that most of the great Black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect, and self-love."

- Cornel West

Self-esteem

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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Pay attention to those employees who respectfully ask why. They are demonstrating an interest in their jobs and exhibiting a curiosity that could eventually translate into leadership ability."

- Harvey Mackay

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"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first."

- Angela Ahrendts

Leadership

"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

Leadership

"An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage."

- Jack Welch

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