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…if someone gives you guidance, they will watch to see if you follow their advice. They will have a personal stake in seeing you succeed.
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…failures plant the seeds of future success…
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141 |
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…successful negotiation involve[s] getting your counterpart to do the work for you and suggest your solution himself.
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141 |
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One day soon we will look back and see that we produced two nations, a fantastically successful nation, working in the technologically dynamic sectors, and everyone else. Average is over.
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259 |
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Google is the successful embodiment, through technology, of the earlier dream of the memory palace.
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153 |
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It’s an open debate how much education can boost innate aptitude or IQ, but the trait of ‘conscientiousness’ does consistently predict education and job success and also subjective happiness.
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201 |
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Since the self-motivated will find it easier to succeed than ever before, a new tier of people from poor or underprivileged backgrounds will claw their way to the top.
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230 |
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A transactional relationship is often… a prescription for short-term success (in terms of cost reduction) and long-term mediocrity.
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Enthusiastic employees are caught up in the organization and identify with it, so its successes and failures become, in effect, the employees’ successes and failures.
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72 |
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Enthusiasm is not a recipe for perpetual bliss or automatic success, and it has little in common with ‘contentment.’
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