I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
Barbara CorcoranRead
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.
Interpretation
Emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills are more important than academic knowledge.
This quote emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence, or 'people smarts', over traditional academic knowledge, or 'book smarts'. It suggests that understanding and connecting with others can lead to greater success and fulfillment in life than simply having academic credentials or knowledge.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career success, one could say, 'Remember, your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.'
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.
My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
The biggest challenge in business is not the competition, it's what goes on inside your own head
I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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