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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraining enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt |
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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, Jr. |
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You're only as good as the people you hire.
Ray Kroc |
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In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing that you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt |
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Whenever you're called on to make up your mind,
And you're hampered by not having any,
The simplest way to solve the dilemma you'll find,
Is simply by flipping a penny.
No, not so that chance shall decide the affair,
As you're passively standing there moping.
But as soon as the penny is up in the air,
You'll suddenly know what you're hoping.
Piet Hein, Grooks |
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Sir, what is the secret of your success? a reporter asked a bank president.
Two words.
And, sir, what are they?
Right decisions.
And how do you make the right decisions?
One word.
And, sir, what is it?
Experience.
And how do you get experience?
Two words.
And, sir, what are they.
Wrong decisions.
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Make big decisions in the calm.
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt |
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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality . . . that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
Orison Swett Marden |
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle |
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The real leader has no need to lead-- he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
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Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Lao Tzu |
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He who has never learned to obey
cannot be a good commander.
Aristotle
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus
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A leader is a deal in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather.
Danish Proverb |
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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 Patton |
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Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
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Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Horace
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Ask, and it shall be given you;
Seek, and ye shall find;
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you;
For every one that asketh receiveth;
And he that seeketh findeth;
And to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Jesus of Nazareth |
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"I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees."
Martin Luther King Jr
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Let thy words be few.
Ecclesiastes 5:2 |
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Iron sharpens iron one man sharpens another.
Prov: 27:17 |
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Do not waste your energy and your time-which belongs to God throwing stones at the Dogs that bark at you on the way. Ignore them.
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Serenity. Why loose your temper if by loosing it, you offend God, you trouble your neighbor, you give yourself a bad time. and in the end you have to set
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You will never be a reder if you see others only as stepping stones to get ahead. You will be a reader if you are ambitious of the salvation of all souls.
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"The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul."
David O. McKay
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In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer
Henry W. Longfellow
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I light my candle from their torches.
Robert Burton
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Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Woodrow Wilson
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The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed
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Publius Syrus
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A bold onset is half the battle.
Giuseppe Garibald
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To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg
James Thomas
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To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Solon
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When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy
Seneca
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Abraham Lincoln
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What you cannot enforce / Do not command
Sophocles
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There go the people.
I must follow them for I am their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
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Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
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A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
Polybius
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Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself
Thomas Carlyle
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It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.)
Latin Proverb
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