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"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences."


"One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door."


"Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore."


"Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power."


"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."
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