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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.
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**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.”
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**Listening is Central to Leadership**
”Leadership is not about commanding — it’s about listening.”
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**You Cannot Kill an Idea**
”You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.”
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**Ideas Create Value**
”Money doesn’t produce money. Ideas produce money.”
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**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.”
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**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.”
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**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.”
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**Optimism and Pessimism**
”Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently.”
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**Imagination Over Memory**
”We should use our imagination more than our memory.”
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**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.”
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**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.”
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