The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

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Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding...

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding...

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do...

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do...

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished...

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished...

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that...

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that...

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be...

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be...

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to...

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to...

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether...

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether...

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better...

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better...

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of...

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of...

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a...

We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a...

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only...

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only...

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he...

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he...

We can have no 50-50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American...

We can have no 50-50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American...

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.

Everyone excels in something in which another fails.

Everyone excels in something in which another fails.

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures...

Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures...