“I have an immigrant mentality, which is that the job can be taken away at any time, so make sure you earn it every day…immigrants come here they have no safety net-zero. I landed here with $500 in my pocket. I had no one here to pay for me.”
Quoted in [Burnison, Gary, No Fear of Failure: Real Stories of How Leaders Deal with Risk and Change, http://books.google.com/books?id=0b75eDxhvycC&pg=PA29, 16 March 2011, John Wiley & Sons, 978-1-118-02306-8, 29–]
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