“The best things in history are accomplished by people who get “tired of being shoved around.””
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 12
“There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.”
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Context: And I think the job of a leader is not to try to do everything yourself, but it's to try to organize people, each of whom have different talents and skills. Make sure that they are joined in a common vision about what needs to get done, but then go ahead and let them -- give them the tools so that they can do what they need to do. [... ] Very few things, great things are done by yourself. Maybe if you're a Picasso or Mozart you can go off into a room and you can produce great things. But most great accomplishments, human accomplishments, they're done as a group. And you're job as a leader then, is to be able to assemble to bring together people in a common vision.