There is nothing in the world which does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good management is to recognize and grasp this moment.

Il n'yu a rien dans le mond qui n'ait son moment decisif, et le chef-d'oeuvre de la bonne conduite est de connaître et de prendre ce moment.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

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Leadership Management Timing

Author

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1717 1710s 18th century

Occupation

Writer

From

France Europe

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De Gondi, Jean-Francois Paul. Memoires. 1717, bk. 2.

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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.

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Genre
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Time
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