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As an actor, I pretend for a living. I play fictitious characters, often solving fictitious problems… I believe that mankind has looked at climate change in that same way — as if it were a fiction, as if pretending that climate change wasn’t real would somehow make it go away… To be clear, this is not about just telling people to change their light bulbs or to buy a hybrid car; this disaster has grown beyond the choices that individuals make… None of this is rhetoric, none of it is hysteria — it is a fact... This is now about our industries and our governments around the world taking decisive and large-scale action.
— Emilio Iodice, When Courage was the Essence of Leadership: Lessons from History, New Edition
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great
— Emilio Iodice, When Courage was the Essence of Leadership: Lessons from History, New Edition
The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
— Emilio Iodice, When Courage was the Essence of Leadership: Lessons from History, New Edition
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‘We did it ourselves!’ Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their
— Emilio Iodice, When Courage was the Essence of Leadership: Lessons from History, New Edition