In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.
- Topic: Networking, Work
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Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
The common denominator of happy and successful people is that they spend their time with other happy and successful people.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.