Power lasts 10 years, influence not more than a hundred. - Korean proverb
There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things while those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders. - Niccolo Machiavelli
If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near. - Jack Welch
Perspective/Strong Relationship-Building Skills = +50 IQ points. - Michael Porter
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects. - Charles De Gaulle
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. . . . The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. -Walter Lippmann
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. - Bishop Desmond Tutu
The right man comes at the right time. - Italian Proverb
Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have. - Richard M. Nixon
What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools predicted has come to pass. - Lord Melbourne
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