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"Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards."
"The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England."
"Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself."
"Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning."
"People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame."
"In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it."
"Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in."
"Customers will never love a company until its employees love it first."
"True leaders inspire us to be bigger and do things we are afraid of doing."
"The wisest among us - the genuine leaders - smile in the face of adversity."
"Few things feel as unbelievably great as working out hard."
"It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through."
"Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field."
"Roman matrons used to say to their sons: 'Come back with your shield or on it.' Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome... (but not before it created an Empire that changed the world -EM)."
"Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once."
"A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated."
"O philosophy, you leader of life."
"It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders."
"The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia."