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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."

"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."

"Losing your job shows you the worth of your time rather the worth of money."

"An entrepreneur sells his thoughts and ideas as a packaged product."

"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."
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"Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can."

"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."

"I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip."

"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."

"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since."

"Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so."

"I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961."

"I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks."

"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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