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"The greatest teacher I know is the job itself."
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"All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job."
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"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
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"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."
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"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."
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"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was."
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"The tougher the job, the greater the reward."
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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
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"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."
Job

"Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight."
Experience

"Never wait for trouble."
Trouble

"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."
Old

"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."
People

"I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit."
Fear
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