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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born. Warren Bennis

Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it. Warren Buffett

Enemy Profit Market Folly Rather Participate Look Friend Than Your

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. Francis Bacon

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. Democritus

Good Rather Wrong Merely Means Desire

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things. Dennis Prager

Good You People Better Good Person Other Would Rather Better Person Obstacle Most Becoming Person Order Want Biggest Biggest Obstacle Really Things

I would rather be without a state than without a voice. Edward Snowden

State Would Rather Voice Without Than

To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel. Fran Lebowitz

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He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. Friedrich August von Hayek

Knowledge Learning Achieve Plants Will Appropriate Rather Results Shape Shapes He Environment Does Cultivate His Providing Handiwork Craftsman Which Manner Use Therefore Gardener Growth

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things. Gary Gygax

Character You Game Experience Yourself Losing Value Whatever Wild Else Secret Wild West Those Rather Winning Involved Genre Sort West Get Vicariously Whether Fantasy Agents Things Imagining

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot

Time Rather Longer Read Same After Story Us Lapse Who

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. Harriet Ann Jacobs

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. Henry Kissinger

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller

Destination Looking Way Anchored Rather Never True New Also Always Arriving Departing New Way Place Eternally Things

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. John Wooden

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave. Karl Pilkington

Live Rather Cave Than View Palace

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either. Kurt Vonnegut

Good Me Writing Power Own Tell Kindly Physical Physical Sciences My Own Rather Writer Studied Wrote Read Sciences How Very Than Order Either Really English Lucky Professor Awful Amusement

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited. Neil Armstrong

Achievement Humanity Opportunities Space Important Our Unlimited Further Visions Rather Demonstrating Go Forever Than Apollo Planet Chained

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Niccolo Machiavelli

In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power. Nick Davies

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