If The Brutal Facts Are Not Faced

Competition Is Warfare. Mostly It Is Played By Prescribed Rules--there Is A Sort Of Geneva Convention For Competition--but It's Thorough And Often Brutal.

You Need To Plan The Way A Fire Department Plans: It Cannot Anticipate Where The Next Fire Will Be, So It Has To Shape An Energetic And Efficient Team That Is Capable Of Responding To The Unanticipated As Well As To Any Ordinary Event.

There Are So Many People Working So Hard And Achieving So Little.

You Have To Understand What It Is That You Are Better At Than Anybody Else And Mercilessly Focus Your Efforts On It.

I Think It Is Very Important For You To Do Two Things: Act On Your Temporary Conviction As If It Was A Real Conviction; And When You Realize That You Are Wrong, Correct Course Very Quickly.