To Rule Quietly, Keep them Amuses

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. – George S. Patton




Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like it. – Harry Truman



If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused – Ralph Waldo Emerson



The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way. – Henry Miller



You don’t have to be intellectualy bright to be a competent leader. – Sir Edmund Hillary



I have an absolute rule. I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don’t allow your mind to become cluttered with the trivia. Don’t let yourself become the issue. – Richard Nixon



The art of leadership consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. – Adolf Hitler

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No One Ever Died an Atheist

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Ah, don’t say that you agree with me. When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong. – Oscar Wilde

A resume is a balance sheet without any liabilities. – Robert Half

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. – Elie Wiesel

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. – Richard M. Nixon

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. – Laurens Van der Post

Your business is never really good or bad out there. Your business is either good or bad between your own two ears. – Zig Zigler

No one ever died an atheist. – Plato

Organizitis is like a Spastic Colon

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On ships they’re called barnacles; in radio they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. – Fred Allen

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Nixon and the White House. – John F. Kennedy

The surest way for an executive to kill himself is to refuse to learn how, and when, and to whom to delegate work. – James Cash Penney

Everyone’s responsibility is no one’s responsibility. – anonymous

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon. – Peter Drucker

Every successful business requires three men – a dreamer, a business-man, and a son-of-a-bitch. – Peter McArthur
Darkly Comical Quotes

Those Who Hate You Don’t Win Unless ...

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You learn in this business: If you want a friend, get a dog. – Carl Icahn

Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you what you are. – Arsene Houssaye

After the verb “to love,” “to help” is the most beautiful verb in the world! – Bertha von Suttner

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. – Josh Billings

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity – romantic love and gunpowder. – Andre Maurois

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself. – Richard Nixon

Where Wise Men Fear to Trade

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No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade. – Peter Drucker

Interdependence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. – Marshall McLuhan

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word “crisis.” One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, beward of danger – but recognize the opportunity. – Richard M. Nixon

Nachman’s Rule: when it comes to foreign food the less authentic the better. – Gerald Nachman

Mass transport is doomed to failure in North America because a person’s car is the only place where he can be alone and think. – Marshall McLuhan

The dollar has become like a hydrant at an international convention for dogs. – Eliot Janeway