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Wisdom Story: The Mountain

The Mountain

There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.

The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain.

Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home.

The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet.

Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below.

 

As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb.

And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be?

One man greeted her and said, "We couldn't climb this mountain. How did you do this when we, the strongest and most able men in the village, couldn't do it?"

She shrugged her shoulders and said, "It wasn't your baby."


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Wisdom Quotes


He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Brian Tracy

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Ralph Nader

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action

Benjamin Disraeli

Adversity is the springboard to great achievement

Anonymous

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move

Benjamin Franklin

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter F. Drucker

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt


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