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Walter Isaacson
“When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him.”
Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

John A. List
“Human incompetence, laziness, and wastefulness should not be underestimated—especially at scale!”
John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

Chris Voss
“He who has learned to disagree without being disagreeable has discovered the most valuable secret of negotiation.”
Chris Voss, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Robert Greene
“You like to imagine yourself in control of your fate, consciously planning the course of your life as best you can. But you are largely unaware of how deeply your emotions dominate you. They make you veer toward ideas that soothe your ego. They make you look for evidence that confirms what you already want to believe. They make you see what you want to see, depending on your mood, and this disconnect from reality is the source of the bad decisions and negative patterns that haunt your life. Rationality is the ability to counteract these emotional effects, to think instead of react, to open your mind to what is really happening, as opposed to what you are feeling. It does not come naturally; it is a power we must cultivate, but in doing so we realize our greatest potential.”
Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

Robert Greene
“If you come across any special trait of meanness or stupidity . . . you must be careful not to let it annoy or distress you, but to look upon it merely as an addition to your knowledge—a new fact to be considered in studying the character of humanity. Your attitude towards it will be that of the mineralogist who stumbles upon a very characteristic specimen of a mineral. —Arthur Schopenhauer”
Robert Greene, The Laws of Human Nature

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