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Ayush Mehrotra

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Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor

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Explaining away a bad decision is unacceptable. “Defending stuff that you’ve done is just not popular. If you screwed up, your job is to show the lessons you’ve learned. Nobody learns from someone who is being defensive.”

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“Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last. Prince”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“Self-sacrifice, we drool, is a virtue. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thoughts? But these are a man's supreme possessions. Anything he gives up for them is not a sacrifice but an easy bargain.”
― Ayn Rand

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“She had a nice voice. A nice telephone voice, mostly. She should've carried a goddamn telephone around with her.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

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“My dear fellow, who will let you?"
"That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand

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“It's a basic rule of human nature that the promise of unexpected wealth short-circuits both intelligence and common sense.”
― Vikas Swarup, The Accidental Apprentice

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