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Leadership Lessons: Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher
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Why Don’t We Learn From History?: [History] cannot be interpreted without the aid of imagination and intuition. The sheer quantity of evidence is so overwhelming that selection is inevitable. Where there is selection there is art. Those who read history tend to look for what proves them right and confirms their personal opinions. They defend
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The immortality of ideas and enduring human needs as the foundation for civilization's legacy and modern business.
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Whether in individuals or in states, death is natural. And if it comes in due time, it is forgivable and useful. And the mature mind will take no offense from its coming.
But do civilizations die? Again, not quite. Greek civilization is not really dead, only its frame is gone, and its habitat has changed It survives in the memory and in such
... See moreHistory is mostly the study of surprising events. But it is often used by investors and economists as an unassailable guide to the future. Do you see the irony? Do you see the problem?
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Vannevar Bush, who ran the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II, controversially suggested the medical advances that came about from the war—most notably the production and use of antibiotics—may have saved more lives than were lost during the war.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
Not having the historical perspective to recognize those differences is a handicap.
Ray Dalio • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Any plan for peace is apt to be not only futile but dangerous. Like most planning, unless of a mainly material kind, it breaks down through disregard of human nature. Worse still, the higher the hopes that are built on such a plan, the more likely that their collapse may precipitate war.
B.H. Liddell Hart • Why Don't We Learn from History?
I explained to him that I intended to draw on history to help frame contemporary challenges to national security. An important first step in developing policy and strategy, I believed, was to understand how the past produced the present. I also believed that the history of how previous presidents, their cabinets, and the National Security Council
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