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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
Henry A. Kissinger
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
Henry A. Kissinger
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry A. Kissinger
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. Kissinger
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry A. Kissinger
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Henry A. Kissinger
Even a paranoid has some real enemies.
Henry A. Kissinger
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry A. Kissinger
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
Henry A. Kissinger
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry A. Kissinger
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Henry A. Kissinger
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Henry A. Kissinger
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry A. Kissinger
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry A. Kissinger
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Henry A. Kissinger
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry A. Kissinger
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Henry A. Kissinger
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry A. Kissinger
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry A. Kissinger
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry A. Kissinger
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry A. Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry A. Kissinger
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry A. Kissinger
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry A. Kissinger
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. Kissinger
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Henry A. Kissinger
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Henry A. Kissinger
From India, Coimbatore
Henry A. Kissinger
A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger
Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.
Henry A. Kissinger
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Henry A. Kissinger
Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.
Henry A. Kissinger
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
Henry A. Kissinger
Even a paranoid can have enemies.
Henry A. Kissinger
Even a paranoid has some real enemies.
Henry A. Kissinger
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
Henry A. Kissinger
High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.
Henry A. Kissinger
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry A. Kissinger
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.
Henry A. Kissinger
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
Henry A. Kissinger
If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.
Henry A. Kissinger
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry A. Kissinger
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
Henry A. Kissinger
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
Henry A. Kissinger
Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.
Henry A. Kissinger
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
Henry A. Kissinger
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
Henry A. Kissinger
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts.
Henry A. Kissinger
Next week there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full.
Henry A. Kissinger
People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.
Henry A. Kissinger
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry A. Kissinger
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry A. Kissinger
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry A. Kissinger
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry A. Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry A. Kissinger
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Henry A. Kissinger
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Henry A. Kissinger
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. Kissinger
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
Henry A. Kissinger
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Henry A. Kissinger
From India, Coimbatore
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