Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWERThe search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.
More Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
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True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.
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Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.
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No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won’t make you cry.
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I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
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Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
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Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame! you give love, a bad name.
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
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The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
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An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
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Always try to associate yourself with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
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What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.
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Only Americans can hurt America.
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Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
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