Becoming an influential personality at work is much more important than becoming a hardworking person!
Make every mistake count and force yourself to laugh in the toughest of times.
Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.
Peace at home, peace in the world.
A journey to make real impact that changes lives, give meaning to life and living, and turns vision of the masses into realities demands a true focus, an utmost zeal and robustness and an unfailing...
What counts that we're not counting?
When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
As a leader, you will see things you may never like to see; yours is to correct those things so that next time you open your eyes, you will see better things you wish to be seeing always. Leaders...
Once you are in power, never forget those who put you there. Deal with those who think they can do better than you and those who think you are god's representative on earth. Deal with each other...
The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never a game, nor are glittering standards raised to glory and wealth. They...
When you are able to create values in yourself or in others then you have won the race.
The strength of a kingdom comes from its King, The strength of a King comes from his Queen.
Trump's America is not America: not today's or tomorrow's, but yesterday's. Trump's America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is...
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.
One highly successful venture capitalist who is regularly pitched by young entrepreneurs told me how frustrated he is by his colleagues' failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and...
Steve Jobs had a tendency to see things in a binary way: A person was either a hero or a bozo, a product was either amazing or shit
Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory: 1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. 2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. 3 He...
Extraordinary that those who command the perquisites of place are those most ready to ignore them! It is as if the blessings of Providence are specious, and notable only in their absence. Ah well, I...
POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.
"He thinks with his heart, Uhtred," Alfred said, "not his head. You can change a man's heart, but not his head."
"It is hard to force obedience," he said, "without encouraging resentment."
A true leader not only demands submission; he is an example of submission by submitting to the Lord and to those in authority over him. Everything
No amount of titles, degrees, trades, designations, awards, licenses, or any other credential can substitute for basic integrity when we talk about the power to influence others.
Leadership is responsible. Losing is unacceptable. Passion is unquenchable. Creativity is essential. Quitting is unthinkable. Commitment is unquestionable. Victory is inevitable.
"... When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: 'Does he think like a businessman?' Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power?...
Avowed preference for an elite based on merit was misconstrued by enemies into a secret adoration of aristocracy.
Machiavelli's The Prince and Plutarch's Lives
While other Americans dreamed of a brand-new society that would expunge all traces of effete European civilization, Hamilton humbly studied those societies for clues to the formation of a new...
All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they were uniformly good-natured. Caricatures even transformed...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.