Hubert Humphrey Quotes

Food is a weapon.

First and foremost: Feed people.

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

When you say 'I want to be an inspiring leader,' the operative phrase is 'I want.' This is inherently me-centered and self serving whether or not you recognise it. What you are really saying is 'I want to get people to do what I would like them to.' Perhaps they don't want to do that. So you have to somehow get them there.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

When you have strings, everybody pulls you here and pulls you there.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

To a man with an empty stomach food is God.

One finger cannot lift a pebble.

Power over a man's support is a power over his will.

Asking for people's help - rather than directing it - is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

You have to latch onto somebody while you're working.

That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first - that's how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.

Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself.

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.

What would I do without you? You're never going to find out.

Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

There's a lot of false prophets around and that's the trouble. People say they think they know what's right and other people get people to follow them because they have a certain type of charisma, and there's always people willing to take over. People want a leader. And there will be more and more of them.

As human beings, we are only able to survive in dependence upon the co-operation, help and kindness of other fellow humans.