- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch - where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.
- Parenting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're having a hard time recognizing your gifts, look to someone else you know who's been resourceful. You may be surprised by how your own strengths rise to the surface by watching someone else.
- Nov 07, 2020
When someone says, 'You can't,' what it really means is that they can't - so why should you get to?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as you have a plan for how you'll live, don't let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.
- Known
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm known to be aggressively early.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've said that if you're not doing something that you're passionate about, you're compromising yourself every single day.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020