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Here is a curated selection of **Shimon Peres quotes** on **people and leadership**, presented in English with clear headings and no symbols.



**Leadership as Service**

”My father believed that leaders should not exercise power, they should become servants. They should serve their people and not try to impose themselves on the people.”



**Listening is Central to Leadership**

”Leadership is not about commanding — it’s about listening.”



**You Cannot Kill an Idea**

”You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.”



**Ideas Create Value**

”Money doesn’t produce money. Ideas produce money.”



**Seek the Third Option**

”When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn’t think about, that doesn’t exist.”



**Some Problems Are Facts**

”If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact — not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”



**Courage and Moral Character**

”The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.”



**Optimism and Pessimism**

”Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently.”



**Imagination Over Memory**

”We should use our imagination more than our memory.”



**The Power of Words**

”Whoever of you loves life and desires to see many good days, keep your tongue from evil and your lips from telling lies. Seek peace and pursue it.”



**Leading a Divided People**

”Leading the Jewish people is not easy — we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.”



Let me know if you’d like quotes focused specifically on peace, innovation, or the future.

— Shimon Peres, ChatGPT 4.0