Machiavelli: Quotes for leaders

                     Machiavelli was born may 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy. Machiavelli lived for politics and patriotism. In 1513 Machiavelli wrote "The Prince" which is one of the most famous books known today. Even though the book was not cherished and prized for the words that it speaks in 1500's it is a huge books on leading and power and is read by many leaders around the world. Machiavelli had a very nondescript life and didn't have any interest in politics until his met prince Cesare Borgia. Borgia was a cunning, cruel man, very much like the Prince in the book. Through Machiavelli's life politics influence him too the point were he wrote a book.

                   "Hatred is gained as much by good works as it is by evil." I think that this quote has a relationship to leadership today because every leader in the world has people that love them and people that hate them and no matter what you do there will always be unhappy people. If you make a choice to tax more to the rich and less to the poor the rich will hate you and the poor with love you.

                   "Before all else be armed." Today i don't think that this would be a good quote for leaders because even though it is good to be armed in to defend yourself, it is also good to have good means to talk your way out of a situation and not get into a fight but instead make a compromise and agree over things instead of fire, ready, aim.

                "Before all else be armed" If the Incas knew this quote and followed it the probably would of easily won against Pizarro because one of the reason they lost is because the leader of the Incas thought that he would already beat Pizarro but then he thought that if he when against Pizarro with no weapons, then he would be admired forever. So the leader of the Incas went to fight Pizarro with no weapons or anything just his people. Even tho it was 80,000 vs 168 the Incas had no weapons and could not defend themselves against Pizarro and that why I think that this quote would of helped the Incas.
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I work at a hardware store stacking shelves and helping customers. My Boss is my leader and is my leader mostly just because of the fact that she is my boss. She is always yelling at me to be nicer to people and help all the customers that I can, stack more things onto the shelves, work harder. I like having this type of leader/ boss because she pushes me to do more and I always know what to do because if I am not doing it right then I’ll get yelled at, I also like this type of leader because at the end of the day I know the I have done a good days work because I had been working basically for 8 hours straight with only one 45 minute break. This type of leader is stricted, but keeps you working throughout the day and at least make me feel like I have actually done something when I gone home after work.