Sloan Wilson Quotes

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

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The company had a policy of giving all job applicants an interview. Every year about twenty thousand people, most of them wildly unqualified, applied for jobs there, and it was considered poor public relations to turn them away too abruptly.

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Anybody's life can be summed up in a paragraph.

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Where did I ever get the idea that life is supposed to be anything but work? A man's work should be his pleasure–I shouldn't expect anything more.

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I don't know what's the matter with us. Your job is plenty good enough. We've got three nice kids, and lots of people would be glad to have a house like this. We shouldn't be so discontented all the time.
Betsy Rath talking to Tom

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Writers have a sort of rank system like the Navy, only they have invisible stripes they've assigned to each other. They were always playing games with one another, you know: 'I'm better than you or you're better than I.'

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I took a job as an adviser to a consultant to General Motors in Winter Park, who hoped I would write a book about him. It turned out he was full of hot air and snake oil.

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The trick is to learn to live simply so you don't need so much money.

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In the old days you only went to a party to flirt or sell something to someone - you know, an article or book idea to a publisher.

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Well, I'm glad I sampled the lavish life, because I sure don't envy it now.

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Writers are a crazy breed. We're always afraid, first of all, that we're going to run out of popularity or that people are going to stop loving us. And that's a terrible fear, that people are going to stop loving you...

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I don't think you can be a writer, or maybe even a man, until you recognize your own dreadful lack of importance. The world is not going to go into complete mourning all the way to China when we die. It's humbling, and it's also intensified when you grow old...

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Life begins when you say, 'Yes, people are going to stop loving me, but I'm way ahead because I have one person who loves me... One person.'

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I'm just a nine-to-five guy, and I'm not interested in being much more, because life is too short, and I don't want to work evenings and week ends forever.
Tom speaking

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