Quote by James A. Garfield (1831-1881)

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

— James A. Garfield. President of the United States in 1881

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