“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.”
“In response to a question about his team's execution - "I'm all in favour of it.”
“It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
“In order to be wise, we cannot expect yesterday's wise decision to relieve us from the necessity and responsibility to make wise decisions today.”
“Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own.”
“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”