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Henry A. Kissinger Quote

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

— Henry A. Kissinger

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Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

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A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

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While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

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High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

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