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    "A leader is a dealer in hope"
     - Napoleon Bonaparte
    "A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "Adversity is the midwife of genius"
     - Napoleon Bonaparte
    "Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better "
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "Following the herd often leads to the slaughterhouse"
     - Nerella Campigotto
    "Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all "
     - Noam Chomsky
    "Imagination rules the world"
     - Napoleon Bonaparte
    "Incrementalism is innovation's worst enemy"
     - Nicholas Negroponte
    "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "Leaders are dealers in hope"
     - Napoleon
    "Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration."
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "Men of genius are meteors, intended to burn to light their century"
     - Napoleon Bonaparte
    "No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."
     - Norman Vincent Peale
    "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
    "The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by critism"
     - Norman Vincent Peale
    "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living"
     - Nelson Mandela
    "To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a God"
     - Napoleon Bonaparte
    "Whatever the mind of man can conceive, it can achieve"
     - Napoleon Hill
    "When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content"
     - Niccolo Machiavelli
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