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“You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: african-leaders, anas-ayemeyaw-anas, anti-corruption, bad-leaders, bribery, bribery-corruption, conflicts, continent, corruption, country, destroy, destroy-a-nation, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, money, nation, nations, personal-development, pockets, political, political-leaders, political-perversion, political-pockets, politics, say-not-to-corruption, self-improvement, steal, thief, thieves, violence, war
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“A boss says “go and make sure you do it”; a leader says “let’s go and make it happen”. Bosses control people; leaders involve them.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: boss, control, controller, do-it, food-for-thought, involve, involvement, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, make-it-happen, personal-development, teach, team, team-work, together, you-can, you-can-do-it
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“To leaders, one trusted friend is better than ten well known betrayers”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: 1, 10, bad-friends, betray, betrayal, companion, companions, companionship, dangerous, food-for-thought, friend, friendship, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, one, personal-development, relation, relationship, ten, toxic-people, trust
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“Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: affluence, affluent, africa, african-leaders, change, change-makers, change-the-world, corrupt, corrupt-leaders, corruption, food-for-thought, govern, governance, government, greed, greediness, greedy, greedy-leaders, hungry, i-am-rich, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, mission, money, penury, personal-development, political, political-leaders, politics, poor, poor-people, poverty, rich, rich-man, riches, self-improvement, thief, thieves, wealth, wealthy
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“People can destroy people; People can also decorate. The former are misleaders; the latter are leaders.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: adore, bad-people, decorate, destroy, food-for-thought, former, heal, inspiration, inspire, israelmore-ayivor, kill, latter, leader, leaders, leadership, mislead, misleaders, motivate, motivation, negative, negative-people, people, personal-development, self-improvement, toxic-people
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“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: boast, brag, bragging, climb, climb-up, climbing, fail, failure, food-for-thought, hills, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, mountains, people, person, personal-development, pride, proud, push-him-down, self-improvement, shoe, shoes, slipper, slippers, slippery, success, successful, valley
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“Leaders say "no" to corruption. Anyone playing a role in governance, and is not ready to do this is not a leader.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: bribe, bribery, corrupt, corruption, food-for-thought, govern, governance, government, israelmore-ayivor, lead-people, leader, leaders, leadership, no, personal-development, political-leaders, political-leadership, politics, self-improvement
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“Leaders don't pray to God to fill their potholes. They ask God for shovels so they can do it by His grace. Pray practically.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: answer-me-lord, creator, food-for-thought, god, grace, grace-of-god, holes, israelmore-ayivor, jehovah, leader, leaders, leadership, personal-development, potholes, practical, practically, practice, pray, prayer, prayer-points, prayers, shovel, shovels, supernatural-god, the-grace-of-god, valleys
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“Leaders don't venture without vision. They don't pray without plans. They don't climb without clues. They are always prepared.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: alert, clue, clues, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, make-a-plan, personal-development, plan, planning, plans, preparation, prepare, readiness, self-improvement, venture, vision, visions
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“The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: challenge, challenges, challenges-of-life, choice, choose, desire, enthusiasm, food-for-thought, good-choice, israelmore-ayivor, lead, leader, leaders, leadership, limit, limitations, limited, limits, nurture, obstacles, personal-development, will, willingness
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“Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: birds, book, books, fail, failure, flight, flow, fly, fly-high, food-for-thought, important, inform, information, israelmore-ayivor, knowledge, leader, leaders, leadership, learn, learner, learners, learning, personal-development, self-improvement, study, success, successful, useful, wings, wisdom
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“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: building-blocks, clay, clays, correct, correction, corrections, create, criticism, criticize, critics, disappointments, fail, failure, failures, food-for-thought, impact, impacts, influence, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, offence, offend, offended, personal-development, self-improvement, stones, throw
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“Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: bury, cripple, goals, gradual, harry, haste, patience, patient, quick, quick-money, race, rush, take-time, take-your-time, tarry, too-much, waste
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“A leader does not reduce his speeds to meet the views of negative thinkers. He leaves them to do their job as he focuses.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: bad-friends, detractors, focus, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, job, leader, leaders, leadership, negative, negative-people, negative-thinkers, opinions, personal-development, positive, self-improvement, speed, stay-focused, think-positively, views
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“Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: action, actions, define, food-for-thought, idea, ideas, imagine, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, material, material-things, money, personal-development, purpose, purposeful, rich, vision, visionary, visions, wealth, wealthy
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“The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: complain, complaining, complaint, complaints, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, late, leader, leaders, leadership, people, personal-development, respond, responsibility, time-is-money, time-killers, waste, waste-time
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“A person with low standards will forever be walking. A person with high standard will soon stop walking and start running. Later, they’ll soon stop running and start galloping. The next time you see him, he’s either flying or soaring.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: excellence, excellent, fly, flying, food-for-thought, gallop, galloping, high, high-standards, higher, higher-heights, improve, improvement, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, low, low-standards, personal-development, run, running, soar, soaring, standard, standards, success, walk, walking
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“Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: bad-position, bus, car, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, leadership-position, ocean, oceans, personal-development, position, positions, right, roads, sea, ship, ships, transportation, wrong-position
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“Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: average, breed, change, change-makers, conform, conformity, excel, excellence, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, make-a-change, mediocre, mediocrity, nurture, nurturing, personal-development, reform, reformation, self-improvement, successful
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“When you are a person people can trust, they will call on upon you, love to be around you and work with you. A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: call, character, companion, company, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, knowledge, leader, leaders, leadership, love, mentor, network, networking, people, person, personal-development, skills, trust, trustworthy, work
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“What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: action, bold, bravery, courage, difference, drive, energertic, energy, enthusiasm, enthusiastic, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, passion, passionate, personal-development, situation, situations, take-action, victim, victims, victoria, victors, victory, vigor, vim, vision, visionary
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“Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: activities, clarity, destination, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, journey, leader, leaders, leadership, nice, nowhere, personal-development, position, quit, reposition, repositions, risk, risks, risky, somewhere, take-risks, unique, uniqueness
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“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing. Just engage him in an argument and you will know it for yourself who he is.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: argue, argument, engage, food-for-thought, impolite, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, lifestyle, manner, offence, offend, offends, offensive, personal-branding, personal-development, poem, public-speaking, recite, rude, sing, song, talk-politely, tongue
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“If you fall into a pit, you need a ladder, not a hoe. You must climb up and not dig up. Leaders discover the right way out of limitations.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: climb, climb-out, comfort-zone, discovery, fail, failing, failure, fall, food-for-thought, hoe, hole, israelmore-ayivor, ladder, leader, leaders, leadership, limit, limitations, limiting, personal-development, pit, problem, problems, self-improvement, solution, solution-to-problems, solutions
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“Leaders get to tall heights by taking short steps. Being faithful, diligent and consistent with little steps is the secret to mounting greater heights.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: begin-small, diligence, diligent, faithful, food-for-thought, height, heights, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, little, little-steps, local, mount-higher, personal-development, secrets, short, small, small-steps, steps, tiny, try-it
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“Between a plan and it’s achievement is a leader in the middle. With his one arm he makes the plan. With the other one he carries them through.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: achievement, actions, arm, food-for-thought, leader, leaders, leadership, middle, personal-development, plan, planning, plans, preparation, prepare, take-action, take-actions
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“Leaders don’t call unhappy followers “ungrateful people”. They see them as “lesson teachers”. They find out why they are unhappy; perhaps it could be as a result of their attitudes. That informs them to change!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: attitude, attitudes, better-life, change, change-for-the-better, follow, followers, food-for-thought, inform, information, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, learn, learn-lessons, lesson, lessons-learnt, make-a-change, negative-attitude, personal-analysis, personal-assessment, personal-development, questions, self-analysis, self-assessment, transformation, ungrateful, unhappy
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“Leaders gather scattered people with the positive influence of intimacy while misleaders scatter gathered people with the negative influence of intimidation.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: arrogance, arrogant, arrogant-people, be-peaceful, food-for-thought, frighten, gather, influence, influential, intimacy, intimate, intimidate, intimidation, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, misleaders, negative, negative-thinking, negativity, peace, peaceful, people, personal-development, positive, positive-thinking, positivism, scatter
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“Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: bridge, bridges, cross-the-river, destination, destiny, food-for-thought, ignorance, inform, information, innovate, innovation, invent, invention, israelmore-ayivor, journey, lead-people, leader, leaders, leadership, people, personal-development, purpose, river, rivers, self-improvement, water
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“Friends can speed up your steps or slow down your pace. Leaders choose friends wisely; they are aware of the consequences.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: companies, companions, company, consequences, food-for-thought, friend, friends, friendship, friendships, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, outcome, pace, personal-development, relationships, results, self-improvement, speed, velocity, wise, wisely
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