People are capable of making enormous sacrifices when they have the agency to act on their own.
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If you grow in absolute terms but decline relative to other firms in your industry, you are going to sacrifice the sharpest, most ambitious executives you have.
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Those of us who aren’t self-sacrificing saints will work on a group project only to the extent that we feel our individual efforts will contribute to a meaningful outcome.
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If you’re not willing to sacrifice and to make money-costing and painful decisions that bias to your values, don’t bother having them.
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…the belief that what ultimately motivates human beings has always been… the pursuit of wealth, power, comforts and pleasure, has always and must always be complemented by a doctrine of work as self-sacrifice, as valuable precisely because it is the place of misery, sadism, emptiness, and despair.
