CHAPTER SIXHow Do You Get Ahead?

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS, CHAIRMAN AND CEO OF U.S. STEEL (1952–1955)

IN THIS CHAPTER, you will learn a series of practical, proven, simple, and effective ways to get paid more money for what you do and get promoted faster to higher levels of authority and responsibility.

These methods and techniques are used by the highest-paid and most successful people in our society. When you begin to use them yourself, you will put your entire life and career onto the fast track. You will make more progress in ...

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