Gary Hamel Quotes

Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

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

There are two things that interest me - and they're both power, ultimately. One is not having it and one is abusing it.

Power is insinuating. Few men are satisfied with less power than they are able to procure.

Anyone can be seduced by the possession of power and influence.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

Power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, "Give, give!

The sudden acquisition of power by those who have never had it before can be intoxicating and we run the risk of petty power games ...

Suspect power more than vice.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Power corrupts; but absolute power is really neat.

He who appears to command people but in fact accommodates himself to wrath and ambition and pleasure, … will not know how to dispose of the power

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Power is seductive.

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely. And as it is especially the vice of energetic men, the causal efficacy of love of power is out of all proportion to its frequency. It is, indeed, by far the strongest motive in the lives of important men. Love of power is greatly increased by the experience of power, and this applies to petty power as well as to that of potentates.