A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.
Category: fear
The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
We have not sought this conflict we have sought too long to avoid it our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.
You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.