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What is Getting There About?

“Getting There” by Gillian Zoe Segal features interviews with some of the world’s most successful people, offering insights and inspiration for anyone striving to achieve their goals. (Full Summary…)

Who is the author of Getting There?

Gillian Zoe Segal is the author of New York Characters. She received a bachelor of arts from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardoza School of Law.

How long is Getting There?

• Print length: 208 pages

What genre is Getting There?

Business, Nonfiction, Self Help

What are good quotes from Getting There?

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things unsuccessful people don’t want to do. Most people don’t want to work more than they have to. They do the minimum they are paid to do. That’s not the way to get ahead. Always do the best you can, not the least you can get away with. When you do your job, even if its just cleaning an office, do it as if somebody you want to impress is watching your every step.”

“you can only know as much depth, happiness, and success in your life as you can know vulnerability.”

“if you alter your work for every rejection, you’ll end up running in all different directions trying to please an imaginary audience. It can be damaging and destructive.”

“Most behavior is habitual. They say the chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.”
“you become the company you keep.”

“Success unshared is failure. If you’ve “made it” and don’t help others out along the way—if you don’t do something to make the planet a better place—you’re not successful at all; you are a failure. But remember that you can’t help everybody out. You have to focus and contribute in ways that you think are most beneficial.”

“The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large it is but how well you define the perimeter.”
“Warren Buffett explains the vast benefits of being a good communicator—and why the people you choose to surround yourself with, even as friends, affect your own behavior and destiny”

“You must do something that you are passionate about—and something that is “within your circle of competence,” as Warren Buffett puts it. The road to get there is almost guaranteed to be arduous, but if you love what you do, you’ll thrive on the inevitable challenges and have the stamina to achieve your potential.”

“Treat your employees with respect, and they will remain an asset. Treat them as expendable, and you will have difficulty holding your team together. We”

“A great idea is worthless; execution is everything.”

“He didn’t think that trying something entrepreneurial was an objective risk because I’d always be able to rejoin the workforce if it didn’t work out. It seemed like a risky thing to do because it looked very likely to fail, but the real risk was not doing it. The objective risk was wasting years of my life stuck in something that appeared attractive but that I really didn’t enjoy. A lot of entrepreneurship and innovation seems perilous, but it’s not. And a lot of things that seem safe and comfortable are, in fact, profoundly risky. That’s subjective versus objective risk.”