"A true Leader asks advice, when he has time to think; but he never asks advice in a crisis. He acts."
"The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference."
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Source: The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life. Forbes magazine, p. 236, 1950.
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