"People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."
-Thomas Sowell
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"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
-Thomas Sowell
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"The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."
-Thomas Sowell
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"Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results."
-Thomas Sowell
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"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously."
-Thomas Sowell
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"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
-Thomas Sowell
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"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy."
-Gennaro Angiulo
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"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
-Adolf Hitler
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"Leadership must be established from the top down."
-Sam Nunn
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"Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests."
-Chester Irving Barnard
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"Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on."
-Warren Bennis
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"Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example."
-Jeff Landry
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