Authors:

Jack Weatherford Quotes

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it.

Jack Weatherford
Leadership, Pride, Animal
Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books

Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.

Jack Weatherford
Leadership, Men, Goal
Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books

In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.

Jack Weatherford
Religious, Determination, Army

A leader should demonstrate his thoughts and opinions through his actions, not through his words.

Jack Weatherford
Leadership, Action, Opinion
Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.125, Broadway Books

Victory did not come to the one who played by the rules; it came to the one who made the rules and imposed them on his enemy.

Jack Weatherford
Enemy, Victory, Made
Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.8, Broadway Books

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Jack Weatherford
Leadership, Keys, Self

The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.

Jack Weatherford
Strong, Warrior, Men
Jack Weatherford (2005). “Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World”, p.87, Broadway Books

The great struggle of history has been for the control over money. It is almost tautological to affirm that to control the production and distribution of money is to control the wealth, resources, and people of the world.

Jack Weatherford
Struggle, People, World
Jack Weatherford (2009). “The History of Money”, p.246, Crown Business

The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion and anger, which was more difficult to defeat than the greatest wrestler. He warned them that "if you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.

Jack Weatherford
Anger, Pride, Keys

You May Also Like: