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To Be The Best

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You could rely on luck.

You could depend on inheritance.

Maybe you could fake it until you make it.

All of those courses of action are unreliable. As an old friend used to say about buying lottery tickets: "It's for people who think that the answer is outside of themselves."

To be the best work harder than the rest.

That's the only secret formula you need.

-- doug smith


 

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