Tom Peters Quotes

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.

For his own sordid ends The pulpit he ascends

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

I find Trump to be like a parasite.

The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader. He is a parasite.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Huey Long’s methods outdid the good he did with the results.

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.

Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume.

Kings treat men like oranges. They go for the juice, and once they have sucked them dry, they throw them aside.

Resist the temptation to exploit power for personal or group interests.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

Those who exercise power always arrange matters so as to give their tyranny the appearance of justice.

Beware of all men who would turn the tasks and the necessities of the nation to their own private profit or use them for the building up of private power.

… the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum.

Madonna's like a black widow spider. She tends to use people, then they shrivel up and disappear.

It would be a most despicable thing to suggest I would exploit the poor for my own personal gain.

Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.