“Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
― Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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