Quotes

Good Boss, Bad Boss, Page 120

…research shows, the more time you spend around rotten apples – those lousy, lazy, grumpy and nasty people – the more damage you will suffer.

Amp It Up, Page 120

A higher-probability path to growth at scale is to leverage your proven strengths to adapt your original offering for adjacent markets.

Never Split the Difference, Page 120

…when an opponent knows your deadline, he’ll get to the real deal- and concession-making more quickly.

Grit, Page 120

…experts practice differently. Unlike most of us, experts are logging thousands upon thousands of hours of… deliberate practice.

How the Mighty Fall, Page 120

…we are not imprisoned by our circumstances, our setbacks, our history, our mistakes, or even staggering defeats along the way. We are freed by our choices.

Management, Page 120

The resources that should be invested in making the future happen should be small, but they must be of the best. Otherwise nothing happens.

CrazyBusy, Page 120

Speed is the blessing (and the curse) of the modern age. It is our drug of choice, while slowness has become like poison.

Never Split the Difference, Page 120

Deadlines are almost never ironclad.

How the Mighty Fall, Page 120

The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks, even cataclysmic catastrophes, stronger than before.

Working Identity, Page 120

The acquaintances, neighbors, and coworkers who operate in the same spheres as we do can rarely tell us something we don’t already know because they hear about the same things we do.