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Next time you go out for dinner, have a look around the table and if everyone is on your payroll, the chances are you have become a prick.


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EDWARD DE BONO I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acqu...
EDWARD DE BONO There's a danger in the internet and social media. The notion that information is enough, that m...
EDWARD DE BONO An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an ...
EDWARD DE BONO The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
EDWARD DE BONO