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There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people.

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To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what’s best.
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Best Decision Independent Need Success Thinking
What matters most is that the people you work with share your values.
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People Share Value Work Yourself
Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.
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Advantage Criticism People Success
People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.
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Choice Confusion Creation Impossible People True
It’s more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.
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Big Important Inspirational Perfection Small
When two intelligent parties disagree, that’s when the potential for learning and moving ahead begins.
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Beginning Intelligence Learning Party Potential
Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.
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Achievement Creation Ideal Problem Progress Reality Success True Understand
I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.
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Behavior Establishment Media Member Thinking
I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.
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Ethics Integrity Judgement Learning Love People Perspective
Treat your life like a game.
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Game Life One Liner Treat
There is an excellent correlation between giving society what it wants and making money, and almost no correlation between the desire to make money and how much money one makes.
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Desire Excellence Money Oneself Society
It is a law of nature that you must do difficult things to gain strength and power. As with working out, after a while you make the connection between doing difficult things and the benefits you get from doing them, and you come to look forward to doing these difficult things.
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Difficult Law Nature Work Yourself
The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That’s the question to be worried about.
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Change Interest Rate Structure Worry
When you’re centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
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Emotion Spiritual Aware Yourself
He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.
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Advice Himself Live Place
Don’t worry about looking good – worry about achieving your goals.
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Achievement Appearance Goal Goodness Worry

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