“When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.”
Salman Rushdie The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“The first step to success is to accept the consequences of knowing that you're right, when that is the case.”
Source: Success! (1977), p. 240
Context: The first step to success is to accept the consequences of knowing that you're right, when that is the case. It is not so much a matter of being assertive, as of giving up the comfortable cocoon of apologies and guilt in which most of us have chosen to live.
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