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8 Ask for What You Want
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
—GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Asking for what you want is one of the success principles. It is one of the most important actions you can take to get paid more than you are getting today. The future belongs to the askers. The future does not belong to those people who sit back, wishing and hoping that things will improve. The future belongs to those people who step up and ask for what they want. And if they don’t get it right away, they ask, again and again, until they do get it.
Ask your boss what you have to do to qualify for an increase in pay. There is no point in your working very ...
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