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Narrow your focus: The book introduces the “Hedgehog Concept,” which managers can use as a strategic tool to focus their organizations on three intersecting circles:

• What they can be the best at.

• What drives their economic engine.

• What they’re passionate about.

For managers, this concept is invaluable in clarifying and simplifying the strategic

Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou losest the opportunity of doing something else when thou hast such thoughts as these, What is such a person doing, and why, and what is he saying, and what is he thinking of, and what is he contriving,

I AM STILL LEARNING HOW TO LIVE.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

I’m still afraid

of butterflies

how they move so much

like a heart

on fire

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

True mastery can be gained

by letting things go their own way.

It can't be gained by interfering.

I am not weak, but strong.

I am not helpless, but all powerful.

I am not limited, but unlimited.

I am not doubtful, but certain.

I am not an illusion, but a reality.

I cannot see in darkness, but in light.

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

—Albert Camus