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When it comes to emotions, I am more of a stoic like my father. Happiness seems to me a relative measure, because it must be juxtaposed to expectation. If you walk through life expecting everything to be wonderful and trouble-free, you will never be what most people consider happy.
Born to Be Wired
John Malone
Thinking about the stuff you’ve accumulated usually does not happen naturally, of its own accord. You must apply conscious effort to get yourself to think, like getting yourself to exercise or clean house.
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Rockefeller was also a great delegator. He would often implore his colleagues that neither he nor they should do anything that someone else could do. “You are responsible,” he once told his staff, “but as soon as you can, get one whom you can rely on, train him in the work, sit down, cock up your heels, and think out some way for the Standard Oil to make money.”
From Silk to Silicon
Jeffrey E. Garten
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