Jack Weatherford quotes
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“If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.”
-- Jack WeatherfordSource : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books
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“Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.”
-- Jack WeatherfordSource : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books
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“A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.”
-- Jack WeatherfordSource : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books
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“The first key to leadership is self-control.”
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“The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.”
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“The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.”
-- Jack WeatherfordSource : Jack Weatherford (2009). “The History of Money”, p.246, Crown Business
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“In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.”
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“Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.”
-- Jack WeatherfordSource : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books
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“The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.”
-- Jack WeatherfordSource : Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.87, Broadway Books
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“Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.”
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“Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.”
Source : Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.307
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Source : "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.
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