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9 Tips From Famous Writers On Being Successful

Joseph Lalonde

His letter hammers home in a loving but firm way the virtues of hard work. Success Can Kill Your Career. There are a few writers whose success actually killed their careers. If It Doesn’t Kill Your Career, Success Can Certainly Make it More Difficult. Work Hard, My Son. Nobody starts out at the top.

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101 Greatest Quotes About Success and How to Achieve It

Lead from Within

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes. –Anonymous. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. –Sir Francis Bacon. – -Abraham Maslow. Measure twice, cut once. – -Craftsman’s aphorism.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.