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The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, I deserve it. The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: Why not me?

Donny Deutsch

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Donny Deutsch
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: November 22
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Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, I can do that. One reason I've succeeded is that I have that naïve sense of entitlement.
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The greatest business icons-it's not that they were worth hundreds of millions, or billions or trillions of dollars, it's that they moved society forward.
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When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?
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You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.
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There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, Failure is not an option.
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My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
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If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.
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Every great business leader I've ever met, in addition to being very smart, very driven, they have this, 'Why not me? Screw it, I deserve it, let's go.' And if you don't have that, you can't achieve greatness.
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The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?
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If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.
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The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
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And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.
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Failure is not an option on this one.
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It's a very simple thing on the make-or-break decision, it's the guy, and that's what separates the great leaders and great successes, and if you don't listen to it, you don't have it, you're never gonna get it, 'cause it's never gonna come from someplace else.
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I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.
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You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.
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