The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTCourtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
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Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.
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A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.
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It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.
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If you’ve got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
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It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
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The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be.
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Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
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Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly.
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People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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