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Steve Jobs
“It doesn't make sense to hire good people and tell them what to do; we hire good people so they can tell us what to do.”
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Alan Greenspan
“If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said. -- Speaking to a Senate Committee in 1987, as quoted in the Guardian Weekly, November 4, 2005.
Alan Greenspan

Phyllis Bottome
“Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.”
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“Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.”
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