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Lessons From People No Smarter Than You

“If you do the right thing, the right thing will come to you”

Berry Gordy

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable man doesn’t do that; all progress comes from unreasonable people”

G.B. Shaw

“I have yet to meet a scientist who wants to maintain status quo”

Eli Broad

“That urgency, daily drive, that constant self-questioning integral in editing a paper, the ceaseless curiosity, are what I have stood upon every day of my career, taking me and our business further than my young self ever imagined”

Rupert Murdoch

“You seem to be spending a lot of energy on how to be successful. But that is the wrong question. The question is, how to be useful”

Peter Drucker as told to Jim Collins

“When hiring, if forced to choose between virtue and talent, choose virtue. Talented people who lack virtues will do far more damage than virtuous people with lesser talent”

Charles Koch

“I try my best to practice what is known as Shin Zen Bi, Truth, Goodness and Beauty.”

Tadashi Yanai

“The best way to stay ahead is to learn from the younger generation”

Dhanin Chearavanont