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"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
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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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"But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place."
"The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957."
"A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus."
"Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top."
"What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you."
"I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No."
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