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Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Leadership
Stop
Ends
Fortitude
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