In leadership, skills may take you where character won't keep you.

Mike Ayers
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Leadership skills may get you where character won't keep you. In leadership, no one has more to do with how well a company does than the person in charge. But, this doesn't mean that character is unimportant. Had George Washington been a bad man, he would never have been president of the United States.

Source: Power To Lead: Five Essentials For The Practice Of Biblical Leadership

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