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It’s not certain you’ll win by doing your best.

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Mar 24, 2024
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A valuable network is the number of people you provide value to who are willing to reciprocate with information, opportunities or money. Building goodwill is thus the best skill a man can acquire, for the compulsion to recompense a good deed is highest in the best humans.

It’s good to be friendly and helpful for its own sake. And since you have to make a living, you can extend the same radiance to business, where what you provide aligns with self-interest. Make effort to pay individual attention to and help people and you’ll own the world.

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