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 ROOSEVELTKnowing what’s right doesn’t mean much unless you do what’s right.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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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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Conservation means development as much as it does protection.
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It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don’t know anything outside their own business.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.
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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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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
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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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Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
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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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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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