"[[Angela Merkel|Merkel]] is the embodiment of [[Aesop]]’s fable about the tortoise. She is slow and steady. **The historic night the Berlin Wall fell, she was thirty-five. She had one beer, went to bed, and showed up early for work the next day**." ([Location 1723](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01AWUTMB0&location=1723)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[patience]], [[leadership]], [[discipline]], [[personal-values]] **Source** -- [[202409161103 - B - Ego is the Enemy]]