“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
– Henry Ford
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Tact – Isaac Newton
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
– Isaac Newton
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Honesty – Thomas Jefferson
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Gravity – Albert Einstein
“You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
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Practical politics – HL Mencken
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
– HL Mencken
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Politics – Groucho Marx
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
– Groucho Marx
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Tact – Winston S. Churchill
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
– Winston S. Churchill
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Work-life balance – Unknown
“There is no work-life balance. It’s all just life.”
– Unknown
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Opinion – John F. Kennedy
“Too Often We Enjoy The Comfort Of Opinion Without The Discomfort Of Thought”
– John F. Kennedy
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Persuasion – Marcus Cauchi
* People buy for their reasons, not my reasons
* Get out of my prospects’ way and their decision to buy
* I will only perform to the level my self-concept will allow
* I fall to the level of my training and preparation, I don’t rise to level of my talent
* People buy emotionally and justify intellectually
* Sell on value not price
– Marcus Cauchi
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Focused human attention – Unknown
“Focused human attention is still by far the most powerful optimisation device we have.”
– Unknown
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Extras – The Guyliner
“Basically, we are all extras in someone else’s storyline.”
– The guyliner
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How do I know I’m right – Ray Dalio
“It was one of the most painful experiences of my life… but it turned out to be one of the greatest experiences of my life because it changed my attitude about decision-making. Rather than thinking, “I’m right,” I started to ask myself, “How do I know I’m right?” I gained a humility that I needed in order to balance my audacity. I wanted to find the smartest people who would disagree with me to try to understand their perspective or to have them stress test my perspective. I wanted to make an idea meritocracy. In other words, not an autocracy in which I would lead and others would follow and not a democracy in which everybody’s points of view were equally valued, but I wanted to have an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas would win out. And in order to do that, I realized that we would need radical truthfulness and radical transparency.”
– Ray Dalio
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Fail better – Samuel Beckett
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett
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Prison – Nelson Mandela
“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela