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When confidence and convictions are unleavened by humility, by an acceptance of fallibility, people can easily cross the line from healthy self-assurance to arrogance.
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311 |
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Most people who get caught in a lie, mistake, or hypocritical dance feel sharp dissonance and are motivated to squirm out of it with a flurry of self-justification.
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336 |
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This is how movements come to be. It starts with a few people. Their idealized vision of the future attracts believers. Those early adopters don’t show up to get anything, they show up to give. They want to help.
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040 |
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…when others can see a vision become something real, skeptics become believers and even more people feel inspired by the possibility and willingly commit their time and energy, ideas and talents…
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048 |
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The more personal [a Just Cause] is for people, the more likely our passions will be stoked to help advance it.
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051 |
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…focusing on numbers before people comes at a cost.
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063 |
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…the responsibility of the most senior person in an organization is to look beyond the organization.
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065 |
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That people are willing to pay money for whatever a company has to offer is simply proof that they perceive or derive some value from those things.
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075 |
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…it is upon the back of ordinary people that wealth and power are produced.
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085 |
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People want to be treated fairly and share in the wealth they helped produce in payment for the cost they bear to grow their companies.
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086 |