Diplomats Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson Download Open image “The basic quality for the diplomat is not intelligence but loyalty.” — C. Northcote Parkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diplomats Intelligence Loyalty Quality
A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
I know firsthand from my experience working counterintelligence investigations for the FBI that kicking a diplomat out of the country is no small thing. — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
a diplomat ... is not worthy of the name unless he can say 'no' and make the other person like it - or at… — Margery Wilson Copy Share Image
The war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them… — Michael Ben-Ari Copy Share Image
“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
The Iraqi regime was supporting terrorist cells all over the world. We had to expel three Iraqi diplomats from the Philippines because of evidence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that… — Toby Lester Copy Share Image
Many nights he lay there dreaming awake of secret cafés in Mont Marte, where ivory women delved in romantic mysteries with diplomats and soldiers… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than… — Dexter Filkins Copy Share Image
