Ronald Lauder Quotes

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Sometimes the only way you conquer the pull of power is to set it down.

I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

Here is a paper with which, if I cannot whip Bobbie Lee, I will be willing to go home!

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

Learn to obey before you command.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

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

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

I remember being, like, the age of 7 and just always being in control of something or someone, a baby somewhere. I had lots of cousins and brothers, and we were all taught that's how you are, you know. Things don't just run themselves; you have to make them run.

I like control.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

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

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

I don't conquer, I submit.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.