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“The thing about credit is that it’s not zero-sum. There’s room for everybody, and you’ll shine if other people are shining.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

“If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I’m not interested in or open to your feedback.”
― Brené Brown, Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personæ folded in her hand.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. As Simon Sinek writes, “Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success