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If you want to take credit, first learn to take responsibility.

Your mentors may leave you prepared, but they can't leave you ready.

Whatever holds us together now, whatever makes us stronger, brings us together, binds us close right now is good and necessary and must be encouraged with whatever it takes.

The secret of successful politics: Be moved more by what you love than what you hate.

Being ethical does not require a master's degree. It requires having a conscience and following it.

Your reputation is everything. Don't sell it or trade it for anything.

We will all be measured by how much we contribute to the success of the people around us.

Build your tribe. They will keep you alive.

Your purpose is to do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

To graduate at this moment, in this time of prosperity and technological revolution, is an extraordinary gift. But it does come with strings attached.

There are no shortcuts to feeling competent at what you do. It's the work.

Cultivate your circle offline — not 500 Facebook friends, but the five people you would invite to dinner. That is so important.