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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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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Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life’s cycle and it’s from failure that you gain life experience.
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I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren’t high.
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Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
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Respect for leaders by followers can’t be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.
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Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.
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Always be looking for that which you do well and that which you love doing, and when you find those two things together — man, you got it.
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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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