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Never hire or promote in your own image. It is foolish to replicate your strength and idiotic to replicate your weakness. It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.

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The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

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Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.

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Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way.

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There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as "nutty methods." Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time."

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If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

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The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

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