Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.
I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
I don't believe I can really do without teaching.
I don't believe I can really do without teaching. The reason is, I have to have something so that when I don't have any ideas and I'm not getting anywhere, I can say to myself, "At least I'm living; at least I'm doing something. I'm making some contribution." It's just psychological.
I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.
