Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Leadership.

The repository contains 30 quotes in the category “Leadership.”
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Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844 — 1900

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair
1878 — 1968

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900 — 1944

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

Arabic Proverb

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Plato
427? — 348? B.C.

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

Lao-Tzu
600? — 540? B.C.

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809 — 1892

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison; anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unneccessary tyranny.

Earl Bertrand Russell
1872 — 1970

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Buddha
564? — 483 B.C.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
1803 — 1873

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