As soon as you admit that you made a mistake, you are automatically regaining trust.
- Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
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Success is not about how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s about how little time you spend doing what you hate.
- Tim Ferriss
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Cure yourself of excusitis, the failure disease. Unsuccessful people suffer from it.
- David J. Schwartz
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The deepest of all satisfactions is knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.
- Jim Collins
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One good, uninterrupted workday away from the office will enable you to accomplish 10x more than you could in the same number of hours in your office. The feeling of getting so much done will embolden you, give you a sense of being head, in control, and will motivate you to work hard on your regular responsibilities.
- Jeffrey Fox
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Use action to cure fear and gain confidence. Do what you fear and fear disappears. Just try and see.
- David J. Schwartz
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In talking with people, don’t begin by discussing the things on which you differ. Begin by emphasizing—and keep on emphasizing—the things on which you agree.
- Dale Carnegie
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It’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold onto them 98% of the time.
- Clayton Christensen
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In times of great stress and diversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and energy into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
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When you start a new job, the first thing you should think about doing is meeting with the staff and asking them what they expect of you and what their wishes, needs and desires are.
- Dale Carnegie
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When you are preparing or reviewing business plans/proposals, ask what the most important assumptions are that have to prove right for the projections to work – and how you will track them.
- Clayton M. Christensen
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A big smile gives you confidence. A big smile beats fear, rolls away worry, defeats despondency.
- David J. Schwartz
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Setbacks are a natural part of life, and you’ve got to be careful how you respond to them.
- Lee Iacocca
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Business is war without bullets.
- Phil Knight
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A billionaire doesn’t need to work. Money becomes a way to keep score-a relative account of how things are going. Most people live their life to win.
- Simon Sinek
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Look your best and you will think and act your best.
- David J. Schwartz
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Whenever I was new to an organization, I always spent a lot of the time doing homework before I tried to take the lead.
- John Maxwell
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When you argue with an idiot, there are two idiots.
- Lee Cockerell
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Avoid adding technology if existing processes have serious underlying problems or are broken. The technology could make things worse.
- Michael Watkins
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Compete against yourself and let others judge whether you are better than your peers. Competing against your peers will increase their resentment towards you.
- Cy Charney
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Great creative work needs large, uninterrupted blocks of time.
- Tim Ferriss
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People who do not have a deep down feeling of self-importance are slated for mediocrity.
- David J. Schwartz
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Always ask people who are preparing business plans/proposals to compile and present a list of all key assumptions. The assumptions should be listed by importance and uncertainty.
- Clayton M. Christensen
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Dress right. Look important because it helps you think important.
- David J. Schwartz
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When adversity arises, you have two choices:
(1) Do nothing, let it overwhelm you, and fall victim to your circumstances.
or
(2) Embrace the challenge and move toward the adversity, making it part of your success story.
- Lewis Howes
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If you’re stuck on a problem, don’t sit there and think about it; just start working on it. Even if you don’t know what you’re doing, the simple act of working on it will eventually cause the right ideas to show up in your head.
- Mark Manson
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Your appearance talks to others. Make certain it says “here is an important person: intelligent, prosperous, and dependable.
- David J. Schwartz
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No matter what your function in the corporation, no matter what kind of a corporation, and regardless of the product or service, you must see the job through the salesperson’s eyes.
- Jeffrey Fox
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You have to take control over your life, or someone else will do it for you.
- Cy Charney
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Close contact with petty individuals develops petty habits in us.
- David J. Schwartz
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Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
- Tim Ferriss
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People who suffer serious adversity generally fall into three categories:
(a) Those who are permanently dispirited by the event;
(b) Those who get their life back to normal;
(c) Those who use the experience as a defining event that made them stronger.
- Jim Collins
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The busier you are, the more you need quiet time.
- Harvard Business Review
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