“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”

— Mikhail Gorbachev

101 Best Ways to Get Ahead: Solid Gold Advice from 101 of the World's Most Successful People (2004) by Michael E. Angier and Sarah Pond, p. 30
1990s

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1931

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