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New job, new culture, new language

Laughing all the Way to Work

He cautioned that I was running a marathon, not a sprint and I should give myself time to learn and not be too hard on myself if I didn't know everything right away. This helped me see that I was picking things up quickly, but if I forgot something, I could go back and check in my manual. That has been good advice.

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Shaping Sara Blakely: Meet the Billionaire Founder of Spanx

Success

She yelled at me across the entire airport as she was sprinting to her gate, ‘Spanx and wheels on luggage, the two greatest inventions in the last 50 years!’” He comes up with an idea, and he’s already off and doing it while everyone else is sitting there talking about the details of how it’s going to be done. I’m scared.

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