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You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.
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― Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game
― Chess, Not Checkers: Elevate Your Leadership Game
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I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you’ll put up with Metternich you’ll put up with anything.
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― Royal Flash
― Royal Flash
