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This will always be your struggle whether you are twenty-one or fifty-one. I know this from experience. When I quit the New York Times to be a full-time mother, the voices of the world said that I was nuts. When I quit it again to be a full-time novelist, they said I was nuts again. But I am not nuts. I am happy. I am successful on my own terms. Be... See more
James Clear • 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech
Very rarely does a person accumulate wealth without acquiring social skills.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Your success is rarely dictated by one single outcome
Laura Huang • Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage
If you don’t know what you’re trying to learn, you shouldn’t bother having the conversation.
Rob Fitzpatrick • The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Perhaps you will attain your goal, and a worthy goal at that, but at what price? Apply this standard to everything, including whether to collaborate with other people or come to their aid. In the end, life is short, opportunities are few, and you have only so much energy to draw on.
Robert Greene • The 48 Laws of Power
Recently I’ve gotten a lot of inbound from new grads asking for career advice, so I wrote down a list of things I wish I’d internalized sooner.
The key thing: being precocious has an expiration date. Threading the note in its entirety: https://t.co/dW7DAcmyng
now that MBAslop has made a comeback in the contrarian community, I present to you:
mr. Steve Schwarzman's 25 rules for work and life
which has inspired my 20s greatly https://t.co/cRpksoywBk