8 quotes found
“The first key to leadership is self-control.”
“Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.”
“A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.”
“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”
“Every society produces its own cultural conceits, a set of lies and delusions about itself that thrive in the face of all contrary evidence.”
“Khatun (queen) is one of the most authoritative and magnificent words in the Mongolian language. It conveys regality, stateliness, and great strength. If something resists breaking no matter how mu...”
“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to ...”
“The Greeks who rhapsodized about democracy in their rhetoric rarely created democratic institutions. A few cities such as Athens occasionally attempted a system vaguely akin to democracy for a few ...”