"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.“
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