People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leaders leads, and the boss drives.
- Topic: Leadership
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
To educate in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.
The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.
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To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.
Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.
There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
