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Book cover for Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
The number of Americans who considered themselves shy increased from 40 percent in the 1970s to 50 percent in the 1990s, probably because we measured ourselves against ever higher standards of fearless self-presentation.
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Catherine Belton
“Under the export deals, the friendly firms would buy the raw materials at the Soviet internal price, which was fixed low under the rules of the planned economy, enabling them to reap vast profits when they sold them on at world market prices: the global oil price, for example, was almost ten times higher than the internal Soviet price in those days.”
Catherine Belton, Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

Susan Cain
“She believed that her “quiet traits,” as she called them, had helped her become editor-in-chief.”
Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Catherine Belton
“All the achievements of the Putin era so far – the economic growth, the increase in incomes, the riches of the billionaires that had turned Moscow into a gleaming metropolis where sleek foreign cars filled the streets and cosy cafés opened on street corners – boiled down to the sharp increase in the oil price during the Putin years, they agree.”
Catherine Belton, Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West

“When you start considering things not as obligations but as opportunities, you start taking advantage of them rather than trying to avoid them.”
Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Steve Jobs didn’t know he’d be a pioneer of how humanity interacts with technology; he was just a guy in his garage making a computer.”
Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

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