"The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."
"Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young."
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Source: Antony Jay (1994). “Management and Machiavelli: discovering a new science of management in the timeless principles of statecraft”, Jossey-Bass
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