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Room service? Send up a larger room. - Groucho Marx

Procrastination is the thief of time. - Edward Young

Good leaders were once good followers. - Unknown

Leaders don't inflict pain; they share pain. - Max Depree

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

Never invest in a business you cannot understand. - Warren Buffett

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing. - Izaak Walton

Lawyers are in the business of advocacy, not judgment. - Allan C Hutchinson

The art of communication is the language of leadership. - James Humes

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The real pros get up and go to work. - Harvey Mackay

We have to make our inspiration first before our inspiration can build us. - Sanjive K Sharma

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. - John D. Wright

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself. - Joel Barker

Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. - Pete Hoekstra

Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want. - Dianne Feinstein

Leadership is all about influence - the first person you need to influence is you. - John C Maxwell

Business is so bad, even the accounts that don't intend to pay ain't buying. - Unknown

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. - Wilfred Grenfell

Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves. - Maltbie D. Matlock

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business. - Will Rogers

They are leaders who have made a difference. Not because they wished it, but because they willed it. - Richard M Nixon

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. - Leo Rosten

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw. - Harvey Mackay

I'll tell you, it's Big Business. If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it's Big Business. - Donald Trump

God is in the resume-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. - Mark Batterson

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid. - Will Rogers

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. - Bill Vaughan

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. - Robin Casarjian

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! - William A Ward

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - Max DePree

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others. - Jack Welch

It is the business of a lawyer to find a hole to creep out of any law that is in his way; and if there is no hole, to make one. - W Ouseley

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems. - Stephen Covey

When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey

A calling is simply God's shaping of your burden and beckoning you to your service to him in the place and pursuit of his choosing. - Ravi Zacharias

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists. When his work is done and his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did it ourselves.' - Lao Tzu

In other industries, value is defined by the ultimate stakeholder - the one who benefits, or not, from the service. We should do the same in medicine. - Dave deBronkart