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"God Himself is the power that makes prayer work."

"Leaders create a conducive environment for followers to accomplish their respective dreams. True leaders never fall for anything inferior!"

"The real character of leaders does not show in fair weathers. When the sun of life begins to go hot, you will see for yourself some leaders are already melting off!"

"I heard my teacher said "great people make history". I am not concern about "great" or "people" or "history". I am concerned about "make" and it keeps me asking the next question "how?"! They are Determined and Disciplined!"

"Clarity repositions you to quit nice activities that take you nowhere in order to pursue risky tasks that take you somewhere."

"If you enjoy peace now, remember it is out of the toils of those who were gone before you. The question is "will you leave peace behind you when you are gone"?"

"But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political program. That is silly. The clergy are those particular people within the whole church who have been specially trained and set aside to look after what concerns us as creatures who are going to live forever. And we are asking them to do a quite different job, for which they have not been trained. The job is really on us- on the laymen."

"If I am to choose between "sleeping" and "being part of a leadership that pursues irrelevant agenda", I will choose "sleeping". Chasing of irrelevant agenda by a leadership sect is what made Nelson Mandela to call it "Long Walk to Freedom!"

"Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration."

"It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!"
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"The headline is the 'ticket on the meat.' Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising."

"I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes."

"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."

"Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine."

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants."

"Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous."

"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."
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