Bill Judge > Bill's Quotes

“The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.”
― Seth Godin, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men”
― John Paul Warren

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
― Norman Schwarzkopf

“Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.”
― Stephen M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.”
― Groucho Marx

“Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Good corporate governance, it's about being proper and prosper.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“Corporate power consolidation is so enormous that even the government could be viewed as a small appendage of a larger corporate organism.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Antarctica