famous leadership quotes

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. ~Ambrose Bierce



Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ~Andy Grove



Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids. ~Sam Levenson



People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973



Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. ~Friederich Nietzsche



Sports is human life in microcosm. ~Howard Cosell



And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry



I am of the Buddhists. The great Teacher comes periodically. He is followed by pupils who corrupt the texts and then a new Buddha must be born to re�stablish the truth. ~Martin H. Fischer



We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1893



The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. ~Gore Vidal



Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons. ~Al Hirschfeld



If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to obtain for them toys, and then formed other associations to teach them to play with them. ~John B. Gough



I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. ~Ronald Reagan, quoted in New York Times, 22 September 1980



No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ~Mary Wortley Montagu



What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike



There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindustani Proverb



Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick



Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible. ~Administration in the State of Arizona, U.S. public relief program, 1935-1943



Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford

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