John D. Rockefeller Quotes

In running Wilson Sonsini, it's all people-to-people skills. Those people-to-people skills translate into diplomatic skills.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

The art of diplomacy is to take your humiliations in private.

When you're President you have to make a lot of tough decisions. You have to keep lining them up and making them.

Yesterday the President had one of his busiest days. …. The corridor outside his study has been filled with gentlemen all day long. I often wonder how it is possible to adjust to so many different people and their interests in the course of a day, but after all that is one of the things every President must learn to do.

I've learned with Donald Trump - take him at his word.

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

Effective leaders are, first and foremost, good teachers. We're in the education business.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.

A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation.

If you can run one company, you can run another. Running companies are about inspiring and driving the best out of people.

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

The proudest moment for [a teacher of leaders] is seeing not what students learn but what they do.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.