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The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. ↗