Quote #129
My motto has always been: A career open to all talents, without distinctions of birth.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Men take only their needs into consideration-never their abilities.
- Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediate…
- Men are moved by two levers only- fear and self interest.
- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Let China sleep. For when China wakes, it will shake the world.
- Now we are in a fix. Peace has been declared.