When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others
ROBERT GREENEIf you’re really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you’re going to get it.
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If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.
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I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.
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Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.
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The moment people feel they know what to expect from you, your spell on them is broken.
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All the most successful people nowadays who are truly successful and innovative in their field are not people motivated by money.
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There’s no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.
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People go into things for the wrong reasons.
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Nothing is given to you.
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Understand: A person of power instills a kind of fear by deliberately unsettling those around him to keep the initative on his side.
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You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.
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It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others — playing people against one another, making them pursue you.
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Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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