A Quote by Martha Reeves
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
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In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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