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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. Elizabeth Gilbert, whose book Eat Pray Love experienced enormous success, also experienced a sense of confusion, loss and paralyzation in the tidal wave of her success. Work Hard, My Son.

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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

Gilbert did, can end up as president of the Dallas Fed (although who knows, maybe Tumblr founder David Karp has a shot). The result was the Fed-Treasury Accord of 1951, which McCabe hammered out with Assistant Treasury Secretary William McChesney Martin.