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"Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people."

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Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

— Thomas J. Watson

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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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