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Conformity is dangerous.
To grow, people need to be challenged.
Enemies make better allies than frenemies.
Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.
Saying no frees you up to say yes when it matters most.
Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
The most meaningful way to succeed is to help others succeed.
Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.
If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.
Good guys are most likely to finish last, but also most likely to finish first.
If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.
Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.
Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.
Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.
In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.
No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.
When you're dealing with an ambivalent relationship, you're constantly on guard, grappling with questions of trust.
If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.