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A basic fact about negotiation, easy to forget in corporate and international transactions, is that you are dealing not with abstract representatives of the ‘other side,’ but with human beings.
The substantive issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real work is to manage our actions.
Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. This pattern shows up everywhere.
…in the early days, the time required for business development activities is significant, and while these hours decrease as time goes by, they near truly go away as clients come and go.
Character is often confused with personality, but they’re not the same. Personality is your predisposition – your basic instincts for how to think, feel, and act. Character is your capacity to prioritize your values over your instincts.
…it is better to be primitive than to be sophisticated, and better to be stupid than to be smart.
Information, unlike land and capital is not zero-sum; it’s infinite… Knowledge, in contrast, becomes more valuable indirectly in proportion to your need or desire for it.









