The Best Advice For Leaders

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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
-Bertrand Russell

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
-Andre Gide

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Quarrel not at all.No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.Still less can he afford to take all the consequences,including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.Yield larger things to which you can show no more equal right;and yield lesser ones,though clearly your own.Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right.Even killing the dog would not cure the bit.
-Abraham Lincoln

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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinion I have no respect.
-Edward Gibbon

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Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
-Joseph Addison

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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
-Baltasar Gracian y Morales

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Fools must be rejected not by arguments,but by facts.
-Flavius Josephus

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Appeasers believe that if you keep throwing steaks to a tiger,the tiger will become a vegetarian.
-Heywood

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It is good rule in life never to apologize.The right sort of people do not want apologies,and the wrong sort take mean advantage of them.
-P.G.Wodehouse

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Anybody can become angry-that is easy;but to be angry with the right person,and to the right degree, and at the right time,and for the right purpose,and in the right way-that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
-Aristotle

2008-04-13T17:09:00.002+05:30

We must all consult doctors,lawyers,bankers and other specialists to help us, but view experts with a jaundiced eye.Trust your own knowledge and instincts.When something sounds fishy,ask,"Says Who? Where is it written?" Is the expert there to help you-or to attend a bigger client, to please the boss, to get personal visibility or to win a better job? Never assume that so-called professionalism will protect you.
-David Mahoney

2008-04-13T17:06:00.002+05:30

We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give; we should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves.Most of all,we ought to avoid giving counsel which we dont follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
-Adlai E. Stevenson

2008-04-13T17:04:00.002+05:30

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it,to be perfectly indifferent whether itis taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
-Hannah Whitall Smith

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Commanders should be counseled,chiefly,by persons of known talent,by those who have made an art of war their particular study, and whose knowledge is derived from experience;from those who are present at the scene of action,who see the country,who see the enemy,who see the advantages that occasions offer and who like people embarked in the same ship, are shares of the danger.
-Lucius Aemilius Paulus,

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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
-Aesop

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If you have a job without aggravations,you dont have a job.
-Malcolm Forbes

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We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
-Helen Keller

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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character;happiness does that sometimes,but suffering,for the most part,makes men petty and vindictive.
-William Somerset Maugham

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Adversity is the trial principle.Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
-Henry Fielding

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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion,most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
-Socrates

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Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt,but a gathering power that moves steadily through time like weather.
-John Champlin Gardner

2008-04-09T18:02:00.000+05:30

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B,when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
-William Graham sumner

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Be studious in your profession,and you will be learned.Be industrious and frugal,and you will be rich.Be sober and temperate,and you will be healthy.Be in general virtuous,and you will be happy.At least you will,by such conduct,stand the best chances for such consequence.
-Benjamin Franklin

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Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
-Thomas Aquinas

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Victory has hundred fathers,but defeat is an orphan.
-Galeazzo ciano

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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness-someone else always suffers for them.
-Alfred Sutro

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer.