If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My rule of thumb is that if I am interested or intrigued by something, others will be as well.
It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money.
It's nice to be important, but more important to be nice. You don't know who your top customers will be five years from now or where you will be in 10 years. You may have a fancy title, but you will always need help from the people around you.
I make good money: One speech nets me more than what most people make in six months.
The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them.
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
If everyone's looking at me, I might as well say something interesting.
As much as I'd like to think I'm a really good designer, I'm average.
I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.
All these people I interview are worth ten times what I'm worth.
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