I attribute my success to this — I never gave or took any excuse.
About this theme: Leadership
Almost everything written about leadership today repeats one old question: does it come from example or from position. History's answer is fairly monotonous. The people we remember as leaders rarely called themselves that, and those who insisted on the title are mostly forgotten. Marcus Aurelius was an emperor, and filled his notebooks with reminders not to become arrogant.
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- Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.— Publilius Syrus
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.— Abraham Lincoln
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.— Booker T. Washington
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.— Mark Twain
- The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.— Friedrich Schiller