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 ROOSEVELTI put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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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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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.
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The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
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Patriotism means to stand by the country.
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.
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All the resources we need are in the mind.
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The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
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No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned.
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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
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Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
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We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources.
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
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There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.
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Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.
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