Adam Grant Quotes
By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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In 2006, the global economy was doing well. In India, the political and economic situation was stable. All key macroeconomic indicators reflected an economy that was in robust good health.
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.