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Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.

Steve Pavlina

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Steve Pavlina
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 14
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Santa Monica
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