Words Worth Noting - January 16, 2023

“Those fortunate enough to possess controlled neurosis – which is the manifestation of ‘total focus,’ which is the secret to thinking big – are ‘obsessive, they’re driven, they’re singleminded and sometimes they’re almost maniacal.... Where other people are paralyzed by neurosis, [successful entrepreneurs] are actually helped by it.’”

Donald Trump in The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz, cited in Chronicles magazine June 1988 [and how true it proved, and how unselfaware]