Lao Tzu Quotes

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

All power corrupts but some must govern.

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

Power should be reserved for weightlifting and boats, and leadership really involves responsibility.

Gotta watch out for directors.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Governance is a way of organizing, amplifying, and constraining power.

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.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

I'm interested in power.

Yes, I'm your governor now. I'll take care of you.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.