Quote from Donny Deutsch:
The key to success is not purely who’s the smartest, who’s the best, but also who can say with conviction, “I deserve it.” The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: “Why not me?”
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Donny Deutsch
There are agencies who are good losers, places where losing is not only accepted, it becomes part of the culture, it is expected. That is debilitating. Don’t let that happen to you. At Deutsch we go into every pitch assuming we are the Yankees. It’s amazing what happens when you go into a room of smart, hungry people and say, “Failure is not an option.” People are galvanized.
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The best bosses understand the people working for them. That’s the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?
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The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.
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I’ve built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.
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There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, “Failure is not an option.”
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And here’s what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.
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I needed to be backed into a corner in order to get true motivation.
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If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.
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The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
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The happiest people are the ones who follow their own dreams most closely.
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For every person with the stuff, the one out of a hundred who goes to a rarefied place is the one who says, "why not me?" and goes for it.