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Ms. John Maxwell, who said leadership is influenced nothing more than nothing less.

Your ability to influence people within the sphere of your periphery.

It's not about making a nice impression.

It's about making an impact. It's about doing your best.

I learned how to make an impact from the wisest person I ever met in my life.

A third grade dropouts.

The wisest person I ever met in my life who taught me to combine knowledge and wisdom to make an impact was my father.

My father taught himself how to read, taught himself how to write, decided in the midst of Jim Crowism as America was breeding the last gas for the Civil War.

My father decided he was going to stand and be a man.

Not a black man, not a brown man, not a white man, but a man.

Saying to us, boys, I won't have a problem if you aim high and miss, but I'm going to have a real issue if you aim low and hit.

Quoting, Henry Ford saying if you think you can or if you think you can't, you're right.

Lessons like these. Son, don't judge people.

The tendency of a person is to walk away from somebody that's different from them.

You stay there and you get to know them. Vision is the ability to see the invisible. Don't judge.

Son, you'd rather be an hour early than a minute late. We never knew what time it was at my house because the clocks were always ahead.

30 years my father left the house at 3.45 in the morning. Why daddy? He said maybe one of my boys will catch me in the act of excellence.

Aristotle said you are what you repeatedly do. Therefore excellence ought to be a habit. Not an act.

You're going to do a job. Do it right. Do it the right way. Be kind to people.

He always told us kind deeds are never lost. Ego is the anesthesia that dens the pain of stupidity. Pride is the burden of a foolish person.

You'll never be a great executive. You'll never be a great teammate.

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