Principles

Joe L. Reed’s Maxims of Leadership

These are the maxims through which I have tried to lead and live by.

• Keep God in the forefront
• There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.
• Give your services but not your soul.
• The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in a time of moral crisis.
• Politics is not dirty; it is a noble profession, but Poli-tricks is dirty and rotten.
• Let your handshake be your contract and your word your bond.
• You can’t send a lunch by a hungry boy; he will eat it.  Leaders, who are hungry or greedy, will allow their stomachs to prevail over their principles.
• Watch what people do, rather than listen to what they say.
• Of all crimes, the worst crime is ingratitude.
• What goes around comes around.
• No army is stronger than an idea whose time has come.
• It is better to make change afraid, than to be afraid to make change.
• Everything old is not bad and everything new is not good.
• Make new friends, but never leave an old friend order to make a new one.
• Nothing is more painful than to be betrayed by a person you thought was your friend.
• There is never a bad time to do good, there is never a good time to do bad.
• Set no precedent that you don’t want others to follow