[Summary] Stuff I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working

• Decision is related to the word incision, it means "to cut off". It means to cut away other options and to commit and to focus. - Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-hour work week
• I've interviewed everyone from gold medalists to CEOs who make $100 million a year, and their one common characteristic is the ability to "single-task without interruption"
• If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter - John Gotti, American mobster
• Your boss is not always right
• the three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness and Common sense. - Thomas Edison, American Inventor
• IT always seems impossible until it's done - Nelson Mandela
• It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop - Confucius, Chinese philosopher
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher
• Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
• There has to be another way
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they give up - Thomas Edsion 
• KNowing the sequence of events in advance is called a plan.Knowong them while you're engaged in figuring them out is called firefighting. Knowing them after the fact is called a post-mortem.
• There have to be people to do the work or else the work can't be done
• Anything that can go wrong will go wrong - Murphy's law
• Do as you would be done to - Golden Rule
• The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
• Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand - Chinese proberb
• Pausing aloows you to take a beat - to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare ou to to the opposite... it's really important to pause along the way and take a break from commmunicating outwordly, so you can communicate inwardly with yourself. 

O'Connell, F. (2014). Stuff I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working. Wiley.