Quotes

The Art of the Start 2.0, Page 215

What’s more important than planning is grinding – that is, working long and hard and experimenting.

Give and Take, Page 215

Instead of assuming they’re doomed to become doormats, successful givers recognize that their everyday choices shape the results they achieve in competitive, confrontational situations.

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 215

It is difficult to exaggerate the importance to most people of being part of something they can be proud of and care about.

Sprint, Page 215

Curiosity is an outlook that can be embodied, and even learned.

Give and Take, Page 215

…when they feel inclined to back down, successful givers are prepared to draw reserves of assertiveness from their commitments to the people who matter to them.

Grit, Page 215

As we grow older, we develop the capacity to reflect on our actions and pass judgment on what we admire and disdain in others.

Decisive, Page 215

Fighting overconfidence means we’ve got to treat the future as a spectrum, not a point.

Lean Thinking, Page 215

Good hearing is… needed to ensure that product designs contain what customers want rather than what designers enjoy making.

Denial, Page 215

…you have to be able to see clearly what is in front of you and not allow yourself to be blinded by theory.

Grit, Page 215

When our parents are loving, respectful, and demanding, we not only follow their example, we revere it.