Preparation/being prepared
background work, 20, 21,
44
description, 65, 135–136
flexibility and, 89–91,
102–103
information, 48, 131–132
mistakes and, 74
Prescience, 81–82
Prince, The(Machiavelli), 33
Problems
dealing with, 109–111
solving, 52, 53, 65–67,
109–111
Prodigies, 58
Purpose
definition, 148
discovering your purpose,
147–149
Pythagoras, 15
Quixote, Don, 28
Rabbi from Los Angeles/
family, 13–14
Rand, Ayn, 85
Reich, Steve, 7–8
Republican Party, 1
Reputation, 169–171, 186
See also Brand name
Rich Dad Poor Dad
(Kiyosaki), 85
Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare), 49
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 157
Rosh Hashanah, 13
Ross, George, 182
Roth, Philip, 81Saturday Night Live, 12, 124
“Scenario” test, 97
Schweitzer, Albert, 13
Scottish National Heritage,
114
Sense of humor, 123–125
September 11
attacks/aftermath, 2,
65–66, 83
Setbacks/mistakes, 73–75
Shakespeare, 49, 107
“Shock market” (2008), 82,
83–84, 85–86, 87
Short stories/writers, 3–5
Sisyphus, 74
Socrates, 16, 69, 71
Standards
importance of, 4, 24,
44–45, 98, 135, 136–137,
144, 148, 151–153, 170,
171
setting, 151–153
Steinbrenner, George, 11
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 57
Stock market. See“Shock
market” (2008)
Stravinsky, Igor, 28
Success
business as impersonal,
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