"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.“
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."
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"War settles nothing."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
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"Leadership must be established from the top down."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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