"Always let your subordinates know that the..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be yours if they fail.
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“For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.”
“I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.”
“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.”
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“Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and outlook actually have not changed much. And people who are closest to me will tell you that the guy who came here is the same guy who's leaving.”
“Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.”
“The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete.”
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“Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.”
“Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?”
“When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.”