First-rate people hire ...

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.
 Leo Rosten

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
 Sam Walton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
 Leo Rosten
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
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Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past.
 Leo Rosten
Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
 Leo Rosten
Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
 Leo Rosten