My top 10 highlights from the book:

1.  The line that divides majority opinion from mass hysteria is often so fine as to be virtually invisible.

2.  I studied the lives of great men and women and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy, and enthusiasm, and hard work.

3.  You’ll go much farther if you stop trying to look and act and think like everyone else.

4.  The primary function of management is to obtain results through people.

5.  The truly great leader views reverses calmly and coolly. He is fully aware that they are bound to occur occasionally and he refuses to be unnerved by them.

6.  Example is the best means to instruct or inspire others.

7.  The businessman must always be on his guard against the temptation to overexpand or launch expansion programs blindly. Forced growth can be fatal to any business, new or old.

8.  Guarantees should always be honored in the customer's favor.

9.  Ability and achievement are bona fides no one dares question, no matter how unconventional the man who presents them.

10.  To be truly rich a man must live by his own values.

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