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Six Wise People

“Someone's hindsight can become your foresight.”

—Anonymous

“Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.”

—Joan Rivers, American comedian

Some People You Ought to Listen To

How do people accomplish big things like building a companys? There's no one formula, but there are common ingredients—perseverance, large amounts of hard work, listening keenly to others who've succeeded.

That last bit is what we get into in this chapter, in the form of six interviews with people from whom I think you'll learn valuable lessons, cheaply. I say cheaply because each of these people has already paid the price to learn what he ...

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