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My fighting spirit has often seemed out of place.
Lewis Schiff
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By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.
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The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a top-down look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.
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During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.
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As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of outsider status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.
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That doesn't mean we should be doing it, though. We should always be carving back those things that are comfortable and institutionalized but not necessarily impactful.
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I went to work at political consulting firms, graphic design and communications firms and ultimately, magazines. Today, my career is in the media business. And more specifically, I'm in the words side of the business as opposed to video or music.
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The work I'm doing today gets me one step closer to the work I should be doing tomorrow. And that the way I learn this is by trying, failing, networking and experimenting. I'll stop doing that when I'm dead.
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Still, it formed one of my basic beliefs about success which is this: most of the time, success can be measured in terms of how much more than others you have of something that's in short supply. This includes money, reputation, respect, etc.
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Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.
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The problem is not the sentiment, it's the execution. When a company makes a mistake, the individual benefits because they've learned how NOT to do something while the institution had to pay for the mistake.
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As you climb of the organizational ladder, you have to redefine your role in the value chain from player to captain to coach to manager, and for some, to owner. These are different roles and you won't be able to succeed as a manager when you're acting like a player.
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I believe that only a subset of us is meant to lead. The rest want to follow.
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