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How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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“Education,” said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, “is the ability to meet life’s situations.”

“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Jim Mattis, Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead

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“Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.”
― Richard Hamming, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

tags: efficient, error, experience, learning, right, study, success

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“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others”
― Peter Bevelin, All I Want To Know Is Where I'm Going To Die So I'll Never Go There

tags: business, leadership-development, management, wisdom

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“came to the realization that there was a big difference between China and the United States. China was, more or less, a land of equal pay but unequal access to opportunities. The United States was, more or less, a land of equal opportunities but vastly different pay.”
― Weijian Shan, Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America

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“The future is as full of promise as it is fraught with uncertainty.”
― Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: A Statesman’s Powerful Story of Transformation from Poverty to National Leadership

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Indiana University Student Readers — 3 members — last activity Dec 04, 2015 07:31PM
This is a group for any student at IU who enjoys reading a lot. People can also find who may have similar interests and meet on campus to discuss. Mo ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 321067 members — last activity 2 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Continuous Improvement Group — 10 members — last activity Jan 10, 2016 03:20PM
I have setup this group to discuss books around the Continuous Improvement particularly Lean, Six Sigma and TOC. Other books that are appropriate are ...more