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When it comes to business endeavors, career choices, or decisions about your personal life, we should all be striving for two things: First, you should find at least one person to be your quitting coach. Second, you should try to serve in that role for the people you love.
In selecting Roosevelt, a second-year law student at Columbia, the Irish boss recognized the allure of the Roosevelt name. Theodore’s father, the late Theodore Roosevelt Sr., had been a highly respected philanthropist who had worked to improve the lives of poor children through his work with the Children’s Aid Society, Miss Sattery’s Night School for Little Italians, and the Newsboys’ Lodging House. Indeed, when the nomination of Theodore Roosevelt was announced, the New York Daily Tribune suggested that in voting for the son of “one of the most loved and respected” figures in the history of New York, voters would have the opportunity “to show their regard for an honored name.” The boss also understood that Roosevelt had the means to contribute to his own campaign.
Leadership in Turbulent Times
Doris Kearns Goodwin
More important than acquiring new subjects or building his reputation as the defender of persecuted religions, the victory over the Black Khitan gave Genghis Khan complete control over the Silk Route between the Chinese and the Muslims. He now had vassal states among the Tangut, the Uighurs, the Black Khitan, and the northern Jurched lands; and although he controlled neither the primary production area of the Sung dynasty nor the primary purchasing areas in the Middle East, he controlled the links between. With his control over large amounts of Chinese trade goods, he saw tremendous opportunities for trade with the Muslim countries of central Asia and the Middle East.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
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