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Henry Kissinger |
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Henry Kissinger . Enjoy these inspirational and motivational quotes.
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Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. |
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If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. |
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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. |
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It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. |
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. |
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Nixon had three goals to win by the biggest electoral landslide in history to be remembered as a peacemaker and to be accepted by the 'Establishment' as an equal. He achieved all these objectives at the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. And he lost them all two months later-partly because he turned a dream into an obsession. |
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No foreign policy-no matter how ingenious-has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none. |
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Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy. |
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Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. |
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The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. |
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The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose. |
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The great tragedies of history occur not when right confronts wrong but when two rights confront each other. |
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The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. |
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. |
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. |
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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. |
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The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. ... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. |
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There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. |
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. |
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We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are. |
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When you meet the president, you ask yourself, How did it ever occur to anybody that he should be governor much less president. |
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. |
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Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never. |
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Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. |
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Author: John Stuart Mill
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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. |
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Author: Martin Luther King Jr
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The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. |
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Author: Rupert Murdoch
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. |
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Author: Pablo Picasso
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Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. |
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Author: Lee Iacocca
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