You were responsible for developing the knowledge, skills, and traits of character you needed to earn a living.

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One who has always been there, deeply steeped into the cocktail world that holds true integrity, and steadfast character who reminds us that knowledge is king, and bars are supposed to be fun.

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Mobley, my mentor and founder of the IBM Executive School, endlessly repeated that values, attitudes, and character traits are far more critical to success than skills and knowledge.

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What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

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