If you can think for yourself while being open-minded in a clearheaded way to find out what is best for you to do, and if you can summon up the coura… - Ray Dalio

Most people assume that the challenges that go along with growing a large business are greater than those of growing a smaller one. That is not true. Going from a five-person organization to a sixty-person organization was just as challenging as going from a sixty-person organization to a seven-hundred-person organization — and from a seven-hundred-person organization to a 1,500-person one.

To be effective you must not let your need to be right be more important than your need to find out what’s true. If you are too proud of what you know or of how good you are at something you will learn less, make inferior decisions, and fall short of your potential.

Unattainable goals appeal to heroes,