Quotes

The Quarter-Life Breakthrough, Page 135

If you ever catch yourself calling Comcast instead of getting your work done, you know you have reached the Procrastination Hall of Fame, and you have a problem.

Predictably Irrational, Page 135

…the more work you put into something, the more ownership you begin to feel for it.

Focus, Page 135

…the best intuition takes huge amounts of data, harvesting our entire life experience, and filters it through the human brain.

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Page 135

Compulsions are not choices, and they rarely lead to a positive outcome.

ReWork, Page 136

…if you’re a copycat, you can never keep up. You’re always in a passive position. You never lead; you always follow.

The Element, Page 136

Fear is perhaps the most common obstacle to finding your Element.

How to Become a Rainmaker, Page 136

Don’t forget to use your business card. To too many people the business card is so common, so trivial, that they forget its purpose. Business cards are to get and keep customers…

Think Again, Page 136

When we realize how easily we could have held different stereotypes, we might be more willing to update our views.

Never Eat Alone, Page 136

Seek out ideas from people you don’t ordinarily talk to who inhabit professional worlds you don’t ordinarily travel in.

Talent is Overrated, Page 136

Turning groups of great individuals into great teams is a discipline in itself, which also operates on the principles of great performance.