Robert D. Hare Quotes

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

I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?

I find the business world hard.

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

He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

Not all psychopaths are in prison - some are in the boardroom.

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

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

Washington is like playing the Super Bowl, only there are no timeouts, no potty breaks, and the arena is filled with the media. In government, you have to learn to put yourself second in a big way. But I am a business person at heart. I like to be in charge.

The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.

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

Power tires only those who do not have it.

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

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.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Power has long been regarded as morally corrosive, and we often suspect the intentions of those who seek it.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

I like power and I like to use it.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

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.

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.