“We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.”
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5 quotes“Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.”
Lao Tzu
5 quotes“If you wish to be out front, then act as if you were behind.”
Harry Truman
5 quotes“Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers.”
Henry Kissinger
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Peter F. Drucker
4 quotes“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
Charles de Gaulle
4 quotes“Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.”
Colin Powell
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3 quotes“Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.”