Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, on preparation and worry: “The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard.” Source: Last Flight
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“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” Warren Buffett quotes “Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.” Buffett once said that “Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a […]
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W. H. Auden described in his famous poem “Leap Before You Look”: The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap. Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep And break the by-laws any […]
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Fast Failure: “Fail and Get On With It” – Tom Peters Soichiro Honda: “success can only result through repeated failure and introspection” from Home Cell Group Explosion, by Joel Comiskey, Houston: Touch Publications, 146 pages. (1/8/01)
Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing an amoeba into a perfectly stress-free environment: ideal temperature, optimal concentration of moisture, constant food supply. The amoeba had an environment to which it had to make no adjustment whatsoever. So you […]
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