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Understand your power. Give yourself permission—only to win. But remember, arrogance, insolence, and stupidity are close relatives. Take the winning stance. Turn on the Magical Argument. Open up and let the magic out. Trust it. Take the risk. Jump.
GERRY SPENCE • HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
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Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
You do not want to do it without a lawyer present.
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
AMERICAN ROYALTY
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Two worlds always exist: one is the world that is apparent, the one we see, the bare facts; the other is the world we do not see, a world that is personal, sometimes secret, the world in which the respondent lives and acts. In defending the actions of one who wears the black hat, we must discover that world, understand it and reveal it.
GERRY SPENCE • HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
Lyndon Johnson, Stevenson felt, had used the law against him, not the law in its majesty but the law in its littleness; Johnson had relied on its letter to defy its spirit. Stevenson had first sought justice from the people who knew the truth best, the Jim Wells Democratic Committee itself—and that committee had been willing to give him what he sou
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Never be a minority shareholder in a closed corporation.
Larry Gaynor • Take a Chance!: 101 Entrepreneurial Lessons for Making It Big
It is clear that we require power. But the power we need is our own. The power exhibited in the winning argument may not be overtly powerful at all, for power may be experienced as gentleness, as compassion, as love, as humility, as sensitivity.