Stupidity is not a handicap in politics.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Lacking intelligence does not stop someone from holding political power.
- In plain terms
- You do not need to be smart to be a politician.
- What can you take from it?
- Politics does not demand high intelligence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Should leaders be smarter?
- How do we measure competence?
Another view
This normalizes incompetence in leadership roles.
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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
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