CONCLUSION

The Top Ten entry from this section is Ford’s quotation on self-confidence:

The man who thinks he can and the one who thinks he can’t are both right. Which one are you?

Henry Ford

For me this was an easy choice to make. Self-confidence is the bedrock of success. Without self-confidence you will never be successful, no matter how well-qualified, intelligent or hard-working you are. Why am I so certain? To succeed, you need other people to believe in you, including your staff, colleagues and bosses. If you lack self-confidence, it will be taken as a sign of weakness and that you lack belief in your own abilities. In that situation, people will rightly ask themselves, ‘If s/he doesn’t believe in themselves, why should I?’

I suspect ...

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