Famous Quotes

"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."

John Kenneth Galbraith on Time

More quotes about Time

• "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

  Roger Babson on Time

• "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

  Abraham Lincoln on Time

• "Lost time is never found again."

  Benjamin Franklin on Time

• "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

  Jean de La Fontaine on Time

• "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

  C. S. Lewis on Time

More quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith

• "By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

• "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

• "Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

• "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

• "There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."