Thick Skin or Sharp Teeth Quotes

“This form of influence is portable. It travels with you from organization to organization, from role to role, from context to context.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Thick Skin or Sharp Teeth: Character is the only thing politics cannot touch

“Neither form of power belongs to you in any permanent sense. They are held in trust, subject to conditions, and returnable on demand.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Thick Skin or Sharp Teeth: Character is the only thing politics cannot touch

“Formal authority… exists on loan.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Thick Skin or Sharp Teeth: Character is the only thing politics cannot touch

“He was not simply managing a complaint. He was refusing to become a weapon.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Thick Skin or Sharp Teeth: Character is the only thing politics cannot touch

“The professionals who lasted, who built something real and kept something intact, were almost never the sharpest in the political sense. They were the most grounded in the human sense.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Thick Skin or Sharp Teeth: Character is the only thing politics cannot touch

“Good leaders give people stronger skin, not sharper teeth.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Thick Skin or Sharp Teeth: Character is the only thing politics cannot touch