“It was useless to expect the people would voluntarily take the initiative in letting him know whether or not they would follow him if he did take the lead.”— Colonel Stimson, amazon.com
“When it is run by meeting, committees, or the Soviets, it isn't run at all.”— Dean Acheson, amazon.com
“When you bar the door to the Devil, he usually forces his way in down the chimney or through a back entrance.”— Stefan Zweig, amazon.com
“Leadership rests on being able to do something others cannot do at all or find difficult to do even poorly.”— Peter Drucker, amazon.com
“The important thing is not that you have rank, but that you have responsibility.”— Peter Drucker, amazon.com
“If you hold on to an idea about someone, then you no longer love that person but your idea of that person.”— Anthony De Mello, amazon.com
“When it rains manna from heaven, some people put up an umbrella. Others reach for a big spoon.”— Peter Drucker, amazon.com
“The only predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you go depend on the leader.”— Peter Drucker, amazon.com
“Medical educators say their greatest problem is the brilliant young physician with a good eye. He has to learn not to depend on that alone but to go through the patient process.”— Peter Drucker, amazon.com
“To make the future is highly risky. It is less risky, however, than not to try to make it.”— Peter Drucker, amazon.com
“No man makes opportunity. All the great men ever did was know it when it came to them.”— Jack London, amazon.com
“The battle is not always to the strong. We have not the strength with which to fight this man; we must dissimulate, and win, if we win we can, by craft.”— Jack London, amazon.com
“A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight.”— Alexander Hamilton, amazon.com
“The best way is ever not to attempt to stem a torrent but to divert it.”— Alexander Hamilton, amazon.com
“If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.”— Alexander Hamilton, amazon.com
“No axiom is more clearly established in law or in reason than that whenever the end is required, the means are authorized.”— James Madison, amazon.com