At that point, I started looking on my own…

At that point, I started looking on my own to go into business. Again, that drive to succeed on my own could be described as a dream, or could be described as a drive or a need to prove myself.

— from Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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And don't wake up at fifty in a career you chose because everyone around you was walking that way — create your own options, lay them out, and pick the path that excites the real you. I got where I did partly on a plain, stubborn drive to make it on my own — call it a dream, call it a need to prove myself — and partly because I paid attention at the turning points, since the most important lessons of a life rarely come on the smooth stretches; they come at the inflection points that could have sent you somewhere else entirely. Here is what I most want you to take. — Leadership & Business (Leadership/Business)

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