February 2011
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“He’s a survivor,” says Stephen A. Schwarzman, chief executive of the private equity giant Blackstone, and a former Lehman executive. “He’s got a sixth sense of when things are turning on you.”
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“For most of us, doing it again means surpassing what we’ve done previously,’ said Peter A. Thiel, Mr. Levchin’s partner at PayPal, who also has started a new business, a hedge fund called Clarium Capital. “And that can be a really high bar.”
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“Don’t believe the things you tell yourself so late at night. You are your own worst enemy.”
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“Speak less to people you love the most, ‘cause if they cannot understand your silence, they can never understand your words.”
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“Don’t try to understand everything, because sometimes it is not meant to be understood, but to be accepted.”
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