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Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. – Theodore Roosevelt

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The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Leadership
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become. – Brooke Foss Westcott

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Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail. – Carroll OConnor

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. – William Butler Yeats

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing. – Ed Zern, 1947

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Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in. – Kingsley Amis

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All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor. – Graham Kerr

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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? – Mason Cooley

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