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• that life generally can be divided into thirds. The first third is getting an education or training for a future career; the second third is focusing on building your career, perfecting skills, and rising to a senior position or a position of responsibility and leadership; and the final third involves receiving the benefits—financial, psychic, publ...
• I suppose I was motivated by five factors: I did not enjoy the practice of law—and recognized that real career success depends on having a passion for what one is doing. I read about a highly successful buyout that former secretary of the treasury Bill Simon had done of Gibson greeting cards, achieving financial results far beyond what is possible ...
• So what were the attributes that enabled me to go from something of a nonleader in my first phase of life to a leader in the second and third? Self-analysis is always fraught with risk, and there is the danger of patting oneself on the back unduly, but the attributes I would cite are the same ones that I repeatedly hear from those I interview on my...
• For simplicity’s sake, I have divided the leadership experience of those in this book into six categories: Visionaries: Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, and Warren Buffett Builders: Phil Knight, Ken Griffin, Robert F. Smith, Jamie Dimon, and Marillyn Hewson Transformers: Melinda Gates, Eric Schmidt, Tim Cook, Ginni Rometty, a...
• “When you can make a decision with analysis, you should do so. But it turns out in life that your most important decisions are always made with instinct, intuition, taste, heart.”