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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
Earl Nightingale

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability
George Bernard Shaw

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iacocca

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
John D Rockefeller

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
William Feather

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka