Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Topic: Leadership
- Location: Hana, Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Understanding a question is half an answer.
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Either you will control your government, or government will control you.
Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
Consensus: the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?
The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.
