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"Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life."
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"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."

"We all have our unique careers that differ from one another, but the fact is that we must become "teachers and learners" at the end of it all! By the "learning career", we know what other people know; by the "teaching career", we make other people to know what we know!"

"Regardless, I did rise to the editorship before embarking on a freelance career in the late '60's."

"You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don't even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don't have to be as good as everyone else if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you."

"While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career."
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"We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity."

"Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes."

"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."

"When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness."

"The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go."

"I train jiu jitsu because I love jiu jitsu. But I also train knowing that my practice in this art will allow me better practice in any art. If you have learned one thing, you have learned all things, because you have learned how to learn. I can think of no more worthwhile pursuit of education."

"I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it."

"He plays the same game, but for the first time in his life he is truly playing, rather than working, being a human, and this is a vast distinction realized by few."

"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."
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