Mary Kay Ash Quotes

All men would be tyrants if they could.

The people always have some champion who they set over them and nurse into greatness …. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Dictators are the last to know.

You can't be a dictator any more; anyone who tries to play the part of God will stumble.

Necessity, the tyrant's plea.

The tyrant is always stirring up some war or another, in order that the people may require a leader.

Nothing can be imagined better, or more perfect, than the administration of a virtuous man. Besides, when a single man is master, it is more difficult for the enemy to discover his secret counsels and resolutions. When the government is in the hands of many, it is impossible but enmity and hatred must arise among them; for, as every one desires his opinion to be followed, they gradually become mutual enemies

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known: Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.

If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

I got a boss mentality.

I know how to lead.

If you have to remind people you're the boss, I don't think you're going to be a very effective leader.

I have never been afraid of being in charge, whether I have been coach, manager or caretaker.

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader of vision and genius which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, he had pushed it away from him.

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.