Ignore Your Critics and Lead

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

—Aristotle

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Action Environment

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

—Andrew Jackson

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Vision

For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade.

—John F. Kennedy, 12 Sep 62

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Castro is Dead. May Cuba now begin to embrace freedom.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

—Thomas Jefferson

In honor of one of Latin America’s most evil dictators assuming room temperature. Adios Fidel.  May the people of Cuba become enlightened and embrace true freedom now that your soul has journeyed to Hell.

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So fitting in the aftermath of the election

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

—Voltaire

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Creating and Pursuing Your Vision

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

—Jack Welch

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As Ronald Reagan put it, trust…but verify

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

—George Washington

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