Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

About Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was renowned as a World War II general who commanded Allied forces in Operation Torch and...

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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Self-regulation will always be a challenge, but if somebody's going to be in charge, it might as well be me.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

We will make them think it's their idea. That's how all great leaders fool people.

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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.

—John F. Kennedy

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

—George Goethals

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