Friday, August 6, 2010

Power is Always Insolent

Pigeon insolent.Image by abac077(now in vacations) via Flickr
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What you cannot enforce, do not demand. – Sophocles

You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Power acquired by guilt has seldom been directed to any good end or useful purpose. – Cornelius Tacitus

Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent an despotic. – Noah Webster

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business. – B.C. Forbes

In the simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up and goes. – John Erskine

Henry Ford could get anything out of men because he just talked and would tell them stories. He’d never say, “I want this done!” He’d say, “I wonder if we can do it.” – George Brown


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