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

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Leaders and Leadership
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Motivation
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"I have found out in later years that my family was very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it. [On his childhood]"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Poverty and The Poor
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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Principles
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"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Priorities
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"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Competition
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