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Niccolò Machiavelli — Portrait after a picture by Santi di Tito (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Niccolò Machiavelli

Florentine statesman, diplomat, and political theorist

1469–1527

20 quotes, most often on Leadership, War & Peace and Motivation & Goals.

The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are good laws and good arms; and as there cannot be good laws where the state is not well armed, it follows that where they are well armed they have good laws.
The Prince (1532), Chapter XIIIn context
- Laws
- Power
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules
The Prince (1532), Chapter XIVIn context
- Leadership
- War & Peace
The first opinion which one forms of a prince, and of his understanding, is by observing the men he has around him
The Prince (1532), Chapter XXIIIn context
- Character
- Leadership
A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice
The Prince (1532), Chapter XXIIIIn context
Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great
The Prince (1532), Chapter XXVIIn context
- Motivation & Goals

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