Quotes

A Game Plan for Life, Page 051

A coach’s primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.

Radical Candor, Page 051

There’s nothing wrong with working hard to earn a paycheck that supports the life you want to lead. That has plenty of meaning.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 051

…whereas the cost to enter a given industry in the face of well-entrenched participants can be very high, when the structure breaks, the cost to enter may become trivially small…

Leaders Eat Last, Page 51

…it feels good to put in a lot of effort to accomplish something. There is no biological incentive to do nothing.

Never Eat Alone, Page 51

The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 051

…in this hypercompetitive horizontal world, opportunity knocks when a technology break or other fundamental change comes your way. Grab it.

Talent is Overrated, Page 51

…research finds that in many fields the relation between intelligence and performance is weak or nonexistent; people with modest IQs sometimes perform outstandingly while people with high IQs sometimes don’t get past mediocrity.

Average is Over, Page 51

Adult males are seceding from the workforce – or being kicked out – in frightening numbers.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 51

…if we are able to physically see what we are setting out to accomplish or clearly imagine it, then we are indeed… more likely to accomplish that goal.

The Badass Business Analyst, Page 051

…intelligent disobedience is not exactly something that will be easy even if we are Badass Business Analysts!