The Person Who Seeks For Power Is The One Who Is Just Exactly Likely To Be The One Who Shouldn’t Have It

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The person who seeks for power is the one who is just exactly likely to be the one who shouldn’t have it, because he neurotically and compulsively needs power. Such people are apt to use power very badly; that is, use it for overcoming, overpowering, hurting people, or to say it in other words, they use it for their own selfish gratifications, conscious and unconscious, neurotic as well as healthy.

- Abraham Maslow

Found: Daniel Richard
Ref: Maslow on Management, Pg 155 – Notes on Leadership

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