“The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.”

— Michael Korda

As quoted in Powered by Instinct : 5 Rules for Trusting Your Guts (2003) by Kathy Kolbe, p. 136

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