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"It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional."
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"A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom."
"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens."
"As you read in The Art of Being, having a heart of service and generosity is a powerful state of being and a positive way to make a great first impression through valuing others. "Service Beyond Self" encourages you to take deliberate action steps to rise above self-interest and ask what you can do for others, not what they can do for you."
"Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent."
"The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence."
"The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down."
"Establish your system of control to see that your team does there job."
"Those who become successful are those who have decided to 'take the bull by the horns."
"A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere."
"One of the ability of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."
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"Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport."
"When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!"
"It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences."
"Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis."
"Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life."
"Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from."
"It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to."
"In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar."
"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."
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