Rudolph “Rudy” William Louis Giuliani III (b.1944) is an American career politician. As mayor of New York City from 1993 until 2001, he gained international prominence due to his leadership after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Giuliani attended Manhattan College and New York University Law School. After a brief legal career, he held various positions in government service before becoming the mayor of New York City, where he gained a reputation for leading a remarkable reduction in crime.
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Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can’t control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.
—Rudy Giuliani
Accountability starts with yourself. “I am responsible.”
—Rudy Giuliani
Leadership is learned, not something you are born with.
Prepare relentlessly for whatever you do.
For every 1 hour ‘on show’ you must spend
4 hours preparing for it. Study, read and learn,
independently of school or work, etc. Stand up to bullies.
Stand up for yourself. Have a sense of justice.
—Rudy Giuliani
Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do, and how you do it.
—Rudy Giuliani
Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
—Rudy Giuliani
Topics: Optimism, Leadership
It is important to have the right leadership
in government and other public life, but
the most important leadership is how we live our own life.
—Rudy Giuliani
Life gives us tragedies and heartaches, but it also gives us reasons to celebrate, and we must not allow the tragedies to stop us celebrating the good times, but celebrate them all the more.
—Rudy Giuliani
We gain strength from other people. We give strength to each other.
—Rudy Giuliani
What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies.
—Rudy Giuliani
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