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The first step to success is to accept the consequences of knowing that you're right, when that is the case. It is not so much a matter of being assertive, as of giving up the comfortable cocoon of apologies and guilt in which most of us have chosen to live.

— Michael Korda Success! (1977)

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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

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