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Leadership Through The Ages

A Collection of Favorite Quotations

Miramax Books – 2003 (115 pages in paperback)

Introduced by Rudolph Giuliani

ISBN 1-4013-5929-9

 

This is a small but interesting book about the thoughts of various leaders throughout history. It is sold as a companion book to Giuliani’s best selling book, Leadership (two volume set). The book is introduced by Rudy Giuliani who has put together a collection of over 250 inspiring leadership quotations from individuals like Lee Iacocca, Will Rogers, Martin Luther King, Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt and many others. Giuliani explains why he compiled these quotations by saying, “…leadership is mostly a skill that people learn. They learn from their parents, from their friends and colleagues, from their teachers, and from their clergy. But leaders also learn from leaders they’ve never met – by reading about them”.

 

These quotations are organized in 20 subject chapters and include titles like character, compassion, vision, conviction, action, inspiration, failure and teamwork. Some of these quotations are well known but others are unique. Leadership Through the Ages is intended to provoke serious thought and reflection. Here are a few examples…

 

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

-         Henry Miller

 

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-         Edith Wharton

 

A leader should not get too far in front of his troops or he will get shot in the ass.

     - Joseph Clark

 

Leadership Through the Ages is the kind of book to read when you are sitting by a crackling fire on a cold winter eve. Most of the quotes are short and pithy. If you like to read or ponder quotations, this is a satisfying book you can read in one evening’s sitting.

 

 

 

weLEAD rating -  recommended

 

 

 

 

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