The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTWhenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.
More Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
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To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
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Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
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Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
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The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly.
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
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Comparison is the thief of joy.
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
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The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
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I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.
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I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.
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No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.
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