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"If you want to achieve in life, you cannot allow yourself to be part of the human flotsam in a sea of circumstances. You've got to be goal-directed. You've got to head in a given direction and marshal all the forces to support that."

— Reuel J. Khoza

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Source: Reuel Jethro Khoza discussing purposeful leadership and personal determination in the Creating Emerging Markets oral history interview at Harvard Business School.
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