David Gergen > Quotes

“Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.”
― David Gergen

“He never conquered polio, but he wrote a new narrative about his life that not only transformed him but won him the presidency.”
― David Gergen, Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made

“a stoic always kept two files in his mind: one for those things that are up to him and within his power, and one for those that are not up to him and thus beyond his power. If you pay lots of attention to events beyond your power, you will ultimately have a life of fear and guilt; you must let those go and pay attention only to those things within your power.”
― David Gergen, Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made

“This is not a quote by me, but one of my favorites:

"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.”
― David Gergen

“Sidney Harman, another highly successful CEO who was largely self-educated (he co-founded Harman Kardon), expressed the point well in his memoir, Mind Your Own Business: “Writing is not the simple transfer of fully formed intellectual inventory from brain to paper… Writing is discovery. It is, as Dylan Thomas said, ‘the blank page on which I read my mind.”
― David Gergen, Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made

“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”
― David Gergen, Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

“department at Duke”
― David Gergen, Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made