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Management Quotes: Management Politics

• People say "I want peace." If you remove "I" (ego), and your "want" (desire), you are left with "peace". -- Satya Sai Baba

• God created land, politicians created boundaries - On the inevitability of globalization as a result of socio-economic evolution -  Med Jones

• Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.-  Ayn Rand

• If pro is opposite to con, does that mean progress is opposite to congress? - Anonymous

• For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. --Bob Wells

• Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty. Unknown

• "Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true." -- Polish Proverb 

• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country.
  Sir Henry Wotton

• Never take dignity away from your opponents. Winning a conflict is one thing, humiliating them is another. When men lose their dignities, they will have nothing to lose.. and it is only a matter of time before you face their revenge. This applies to personal relations, business relations, and nations - Med Jones

• Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Unknown

• Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. --Lichty & Wagner

• In politics stupidity is not a handicap.- Napoleon Bonaparte 

• Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. --Nikita Khrushchev
• Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. --Ronald Reagan

• "All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism." -- B. J. Gupta

• All natural systems move towards the concentration of power...a change or redistribution of power is only a shift of concentration point. If you see anything that suggests the opposite, its probably a phase of this change that is working towards re-concentration - Med Jones

• The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer." -- Jawaharial Nehru  Prime Minister of India

• It's the responsibility of thte media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope. -Richard M. Nixon

• Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. Karl Weick

• You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone

• A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses who share his racial origin - Ayn Rand

• History is a lie agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

• History is written by the winner - Unknown 

• Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.J awaharlal Nehru

• America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. - Ayn Rand

• Why is it that if you kill a man in war your are a hero, but
  if you kill a man outside of war you are called a murderer? Jonathan Grimes

• While your saving your face, your losing your ass, President Lyndon Johnson 

• War is based on deception. Sun tzu 

• To secure peace is to prepare for war. Carl von Clausewitz

• There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed. . . . Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart. - P. J. O'Rourke  journalist

• If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. - John F. Kennedy  U.S. president.

• The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom. -  Ayn Rand
• In most free socio-economic systems distribution of money tend to have 5-90-5 ratio not 80/20 (commonly known as Pareto's law)- Med Jones
• Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. Vince Lombardi
• Just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others - and, therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. -  Ayn Rand
• It is the survival of the fittest! how fit are you? - Anonymous
• Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. --Barry Goldwater
• The "good" law is the law that is "benefits" for the people who created it - Another definition of the "law of relativity"  - Med Jones
• Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens' protection against the government. -  Ayn Rand

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