“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”
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“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.”
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“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
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“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.”
― The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
― The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
“Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.”
― The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
― The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
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