Top 34 Henry Kissinger Quotes (LEADERSHIP)

Top 12 Most Famous Henry Kissinger Quotes (DIPLOMACY)

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. — The task of the **leader** is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. — A **leader** does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. — If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Don't be too ambitious. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your career will take care of itself. — Don’t be too **ambitious**. Do the most important thing you can think of doing every year and then your **career** will take care of itself.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.

America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. — The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem. — Each **success** only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

22 Inspirational Henry Kissinger Quotes on Life, Military and Food (WORLD ORDER)

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. — Blessed are the people whose **leaders** can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision. — **Leaders** must invoke an **alchemy** of great **vision**.

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with the enemy.

There can't be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full. — There can’t be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. — It is, after all, the **responsibility** of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the **leader** to transcend it.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything. — Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything.

You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. — Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

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. — 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.

A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time. — No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of **time**.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. — **Leaders** are **responsible** not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their **actions**.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

Henry A. Kissinger Short Biography

Born on 27 May 1923 in Furth, Germany, Henry Alfred Kissinger was a politician, diplomat, and the United States Secretary of State.

At the start of World War II in 1938, Kissinger and his family fled Germany, landing in New York a few months later.

Kissinger was a student at City College of New York, where he studied accounting, but his education stopped abruptly when he was drafted into the US army in 1943. While with the army, Kissinger became a naturalized citizen.

In 1950, Kissinger earned his AB political science degree and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College. He went on to obtain his MA in 1951 and his Ph.D. in 1954.

Kissinger gradually involved himself in politics, from 1960-1968, he served as a foreign policy advisor during Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential campaigns.

Kissinger served as Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977 under the presidency of Richard Nixon.

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