"I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems."

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Source : "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

Jack Welch

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“I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.”

Source : Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.116, Courier Corporation
“It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.”

Source : "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.”
“True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.”
“The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them, many Christians - and Christian conservatives most significantly - unwittingly embrace some of the most corrosive aspects of the cultural disintegration they decry. By nurturing its resentments, sustaining them through a discourse of negation toward outsiders, and in cases, pursuing their will to power, they become functional Nietzscheans, participating in the very cultural breakdown they so ardently strive to resist.”

Source : "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World". Book by James Davison Hunter, 2010.
“When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.”
“The writer's duty is to keep on writing.”

Source : William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.417, Random House
“You're never promised your next breath.”

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