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…people with a low tolerance for risk, whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.
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50 |
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The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.
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51 |
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…people with a low tolerance for risk, whose behavior is guided by fear, have a low propensity for success.
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50 |
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The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.
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51 |
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…every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you. What’s the worst that can happen? They don’t respond in kind. So what. They probably weren’t worth knowing in the first place.
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147 |
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When we argue about why, we run the risk of becoming emotionally attached to our positions and dismissive of the other side’s. We’re more likely to have a good fight if we argue about how.
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92 |
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The pressure to conform to authority is real, and those who dare to deviate run the risk of backlash.
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209 |
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…any negotiation primarily concerned with the relationship runs the risk of producing a sloppy agreement.
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The kinds of differences that best lend themselves to dovetailing are differences in interests, in beliefs, in the value placed on time, in forecasts, and in aversion to risk.
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75 |
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A practice of verifying factual assertions reduces the incentive for deception, and your risk of being cheated.
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