Quote by Walter Lippmann
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation whi

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. – Walter Lippmann

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Government
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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Minorities
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. – Walter Lippmann

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Success
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Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community. – David Byrne

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Business

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. – J. Paul Getty

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Business

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. – Emma Goldman

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Business

Go for a business that any idiot can run – because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it. – Peter Lynch

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Business

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time. – Frank Ocean

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I couldnt be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or youre ridiculed. – Julia Roberts

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All too often, governments response to social breakdown has been a classic case of patching – a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting – even reinforcing – dysfunctional behaviour. – Iain Duncan Smith

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