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Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Earl Nightingale

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
John C. Maxwell

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
George S. Patton

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
/Murphy's Law/

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
George S. Patton

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker

Murphy's golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules.
/Murphy's Law/

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
/Murphy's Law/

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie

When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.
/Murphy's Law/