"Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps."

-- Joycelyn Elders

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“It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.”
“You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.”
“If you could get all the people in an organization rowing in the same direction, you could dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition, at any time.”

Source : Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons
“When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.”

Source : "George Steinbrenner: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 13, 2010.
“I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just so sad, as three days before, perhaps the mother was still taking the baby around to play and to drink water. In her mind, she probably was thinking they had a life of decades to be together. However, the poaching happened so fast and everything collapsed. Without the protection of the mother, the baby elephant is likely to die too. That moment changed me.”
“If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.”

Source : "The Seven Imperatives for Highly Successful Business Revolutionaries" by Don Tapscott, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2012.
“It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.”
“Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.”

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