What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
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Don’t be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
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Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
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One of the fondest expressions around is that we can’t be the world’s policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop.
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Always be looking for the opportunities, and always be optimistic about what you can do with that opportunity.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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My responsibility, our responsibility as lucky Americans, is to try to give back to this country as much as it has given us, as we continue our American journey together.
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Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you’ve got to compromise. You’ve got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.
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Get mad, then get over it.
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Give me the right people and I don’t much care what organization you give me. Good things will happen. Give me the wrong people and it doesn’t matter what you do with the organization. Bad things will happen.
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Trust is the essence of Leadership.
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Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.
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Luck tends to come to people who are prepared.
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We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.
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