So it is with all the great leaders: the commodity they have to sell is personality. Mere ideas can be left to lesser men. (Robert Silverberg)

So it is with all the great leaders: the commodity they have to sell is personality. Mere ideas can be left to lesser men.

Robert Silverberg

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