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The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#city #depend #god #holding #holding on

Show me the man you honor and I will know what kind of man you are. ↗

— Thomas John Carlisle

#leadership

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#leadership

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#easier #going #horses #like #ride

Leaders always choose the harder right rather than the easier wrong. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#integrity #leadership #leadership

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. ↗

— Franjo Tudjman

#biased #both #crimes #data #dead

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it. ↗

— Holly Near

#believe #day #first #handed #i

Too many companies believe people are interchangeable. Truly gifted people never are. They have unique talents. Such people cannot be forced into roles they are not suited for, nor should they be. Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#management #leadership

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service. ↗

— Vanna Bonta

#leadership #power #quote #service #leadership

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. ↗

— Giambattista Vico

#carried #express #follow #ideas #languages