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"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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"We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless."
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"I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity."
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"Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
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Personal Development
"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."
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"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
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"Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort."
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"The only sin is mediocrity."
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"People are treating the Stewart case as seriously as Enron when it's really over trivia."
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"Report, report, report. Dig, dig, dig. Think, think, think. Don't stop being a reporter because you've become a columnist."
Being
"Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity."
Mediocrity
"Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist."
Teamwork
"The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK."
Government
"Don't commit to being a columnist unless you're willing to do it right. Report your behind off, so you have something original and useful to say. Say it in a way that will interest someone other than you, your family and your sources."
Family
"I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful."
People
"When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice."
Business
"The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good."
Ego
"I wanted to be a columnist so badly that I took a huge pay cut to leave Forbes, which wouldn't give me a column, and join Newsday, which wanted my column for its Sunday business section."
Business
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