“It's amazing how someone's IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.”

— Timothy Ferriss, book The 4-Hour Workweek

The 4-Hour Workweek (2007)

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“Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.”

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“It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.”

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