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The Role Of No

The Role Of No

  • Saying no is an important skill to develop at any stage of your career because it retains the most important asset in life: your time.
  • As the investor Pedro Sorrentino put it, “If you don’t guard your time, people will steal it from you.”

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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.

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