CHAPTER 10It’s “Not Just” What Your Title Reads: Taking Pride in What You Do

What to Expect: Whether your job is fun or boring, stressful or simple, fulfilling or not, it is important to always do your best. This chapter explores why it is important to always put your best foot forward by taking pride in the work you do.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

—Dale Carnegie

My mother said to me, “If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general; if you become a monk, you’ll end up as the Pope.” Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

—Picasso

Every year the sales organizations ...

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