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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.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
The Prince (1532), Chapter VIIn context
- Change
- Leadership
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

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