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 “A leader can give up anything – except final responsibility.”
 In a study of self-made millionaires, it was found that all have one thing
in common – they work very hard.
 If you want to succeed, be willing to put the organization ahead of your
agenda.
 “Stress comes from doing less than you can.”
 Excellence is a great motivator. People who desire excellence – and
work hard to achieve it – are almost always responsible.
 **The ultimate quality of a responsible person is the ability to finish.
 Are You On Target When It Comes To Responsibility? “When an
archer misses the mark he turns and looks for the fault within himself.
Failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve
your aim, improve yourself.” - Gilbert Arland
 If you have trouble achieving excellence, maybe you’ve lowered your
standards.
 “ Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. . .
 In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the
ability to take on responsibility.” Michael Korda, Editor-in-chief of
Simon & Schuster
Security: “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself
or get all the credit for doing it.”
Competence Never Compensates For Insecurity
 What great banner would have been fought and won under the banner, ‘I
stand for consensus’?
 No one can live on a level inconsistent with the way he sees himself.
You may have observed that in people. If someone sees himself as a
loser, he finds a way to lose. Anytime his success surpasses his security,
the result is self-destruction. That’s not only true for followers, but it’s
also true for leaders.
 An insecure leader hoards power.
 “Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others
than being ill at ease with yourself.”
 “No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get
all the credit for doing it.” Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist
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