💬 Quotes

"A business is not defined by the company's name, the statutes, or the articles of incorporation. It is defined by the want the customer satisfies when he buys a product or service."

"The executioner's war knew no boundaries, no diplomatic immunity, and no retirement age."

"When the established systems of justice are paralyzed by corruption, the only recourse left to a free man is personal accountability."

"Power unchecked inevitably breeds arrogance, and arrogance is the fatal flaw that exposes the beast to the blade."

"It is a grim irony that to preserve peace in the shadows, one must become more ruthless than the predators who stalk the light."

"Retaliation is never just about striking back; it is about sending an unmistakable message that the rules of engagement have changed forever."

"In the final accounting, a man is defined not by the peace he wishes for, but by the war he is willing to fight to secure it."

"It is not that the world is growing worse, any more than it is growing better; it is that it is changing with a marvellous rapidity."

"The twentieth century will be the birth-century not of a new socialism, but of a new and unprecedented phase of human development, based upon the machine."

"The country is being drained of its capable elements, the men of initiative, of enterprise, of physical vigor, leaving behind a less progressive population."

"In the future, the great mass of intermediate types of labor will be done by machinery; the demand will be either for the highly-skilled controller or the casually-skilled drudge."

"Warfare is becoming a matter of machinery, of engineering skill, of industrial resource, and of financial stability rather than mere personal bravery."

"The new social order will not be built upon the old territorial bases of citizenship, but upon functional groupings of competent, specialized men."

"Self-deception is the process of being blind to one's own role in creating the problems one is trying to solve."

"When we are in self-deception, we see others not as people with their own distinct needs, hopes, and worries, but as objects."

"We invite self-deception when we resist a call to help another person—what we call 'self-betrayal.'"

"By definition, an 'in-the-box' person is someone who is resisting others, while at the same time blaming them for that resistance."

"The irony of self-deception is that we need others to be wrong in order to justify our own way of being."

"True leadership begins not with mastering techniques, but with getting out of the box—shifting from an inward mindset to an outward mindset."

"We do not believe in progress for the sake of progress. Our goal is stability, simplicity, and a harmonious relationship with the natural world."