“I am not comparing myself and I don’t look at these rankings.We go on a system which is open, honest, transparent – what is the job worth, what is the quality of the person whom you want. We need the best people for the job and these are jobs where you make decisions which are worth billions of dollars. And you cannot do that if you are pretending and you just say, ‘Well, we are all in it for the love of King and Country’. We want it to be honest, we want people not to come in for the money. But at the same time the sacrifice cannot be too great. And at times like these, you want the best possible government you can have.”
How do you define someone's quality? How do you define the person is the best for this job. Honesty? At what price? How can someone not work for the sake of money since we all know that greed knows no end, and when is money ever enough? We all know the pull of wealth, and the power and fame it draws.
And strangely I thought I lived in a democratic country without Kings and Princes, well I guess its an open fact now. I live in a monarchy, a kingdom filled with royalty and lesser mortals and we see the distinction grow wider day by day.
We need to remember that even in our own lives, we will be held accountable one day for our own actions, we need to guard our hearts against this type of greed.
Personally what we need besides honesty and integrity, we need passion and compassion going hand in hand to deal out empathy and personal touch as leaders.
Be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. Here are some quotes (I love quotes!) which I think the authors are worth mentioning unlike the above.
A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.- John Maxwell
If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.- T. Alan Armstrong
If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that you would gladly spend all your waking hours working on it, that you would happily do without pay, then you have found your passion.- Sharon Cook & Graciela Sholander
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.- Joss Whedon
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.- Earl Nightingale
We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.- Sue Grafton
With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.- Donald Trump
When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.- Nancy Coey
Lastly a single modern quote which contains why it is and is not one of my criteria for a great love:
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.- Yves Saint Laurent
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