The Winners Code
Monday, March 08, 2010
Steve Jobs is the famous founder of Apple, the multi-billion dollar computer company. Oprah Winfrey is, by many accounts, the first African American woman to become a billionaire. Tiger Woods is the first sportsman to become a billionaire.
What is common among all these people? There are two answers to this question-one obvious and the other less obvious. The obvious answer is that they are all billionaires. However, far more important than being a billionaire is what makes the billionaire. Being a billionaire is an outcome but becoming a billionaire is a process. In the game of life outcomes are very important, but the processes that produce these outcomes are just as important if not more important.
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