Haile Selassie Quotes

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

I don't seek power and do not run around.

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Believe me, Winston, that hat fits you perfectly. You are going gradually have to get used to me leading you.

If you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Nothing, you know, gives the body greater satisfaction than ordering people about, or at least believing in one's ability to do so.

When we speak of power, we mean man's control over the minds and actions of other men. By political power we refer to the mutual relations of control among the holders of public authority and between the latter and the people at large.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Well, I have an interest in power. I have an interest in people who find themselves in the position to exercise absolute power.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

So I still seized the power, but I felt that if I officially made myself the boss, in black and white, it would be too intimidating for the other producers and the other men who worked on the show. In other words, I had the power, but I gave them the title.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

I like power and I like to use it.

My aim was never to seek a force and take power.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

The way to have power is to take it.

What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

I'm interested in power.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.