My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.
—Indira Gandhi
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Category Archives: Leadership
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Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame.
Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.
—Confucius
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Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.
—Sun Tzu
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
—Isaac Asimov
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
—Winston Churchill
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La puissance ne consiste pas à frapper fort ou souvent, mais à frapper juste. Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
—Honoré de Balzac
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
—Herodotus
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The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
—Chinese Proverb
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Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
—Polybius
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Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat the enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war.Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: War is such a dangerous business that mistakes that come from kindness are the very worst.
—Carl von Clausewitz
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Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
—Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we’ve emphasized the reward instead of the service.
—Harry Truman
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The art of leadership is in the ability to make people want to work for you, while they are really under no obligation to do so. Leaders are people, who raise the standards by which they judge themselves and by which they are willing to be judged.
—Haile Selassie
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Il est bien malaisé (puisqu’il faut enfin m’expliquer) d’ôter à des insensés des chaînes qu’ils révèrent. It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts … perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
—John Steinbeck
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Confusion and panic usually appear wherever there is no adequate organizaton or appropriate leadership at a time of grim trials.
—Georgy Zhukov
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Consider impact before you consider benefit.
—Lisa Mason
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It’s much harder to be relevant than it is to be successful.
— Paul David Hewson (aka Bono)
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Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force[.]
—Stephen King
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Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
—Lao Tzu
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Iuris præcepta sunt hæc: honeste vivere, neminem laedere, suum cuique tribuere. The following are the precepts of the Law: to live honestly, not to injure another, and to give to each one that which belongs to him.
—Corpus Juris Civilis, Institutes, Bk I
“New” Jobs
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reporting that the unemployment rate is down because 2.5 million more people were working in May.
I’ll bet that very few of those people were hired for new created jobs. Most of them were rehired or recalled to an old job that was put terminated because of the Wuhan virus shutdown. I suspect that there will be a fairly rapid recall of employees to businesses that were able to withstand the shutdown. The unemployment rate is now around 13 or 14 percent, and I’m guessing that it will drop to 7 or 8 percent by Labor Day. At that point, we’ll need to be creating new businesses to replace those killed off by the pandemic shutdown in order to create the new jobs necessary to restore the 2021 economy to a level comparable to 2019’s.
It’s going to be easier to rebuild in those places where the residents haven’t trashed their communities’ physical and moral resources.
A substantial number of communities will now have to make hard choices. The cost of rebuilding housing, businesses, and public facilities and the cost of restoring standards of public behavior will undoubtedly make some previously fashionable luxury opinions untenable. It will be interesting to see who engages in what sort of bitter clinging.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
—Babe Ruth
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Assaults and terrorism in indiscriminate form should not be employed.
—Che Guevara
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Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren’t.
—Malcolm X
