Via : The Influence of Atlas Shrugged As executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, I see the impact of Atlas Shrugged on a daily basis. I’m continually amazed by how many people, from every walk of life and every part of the planet, from high school students to political activists in countries from Hong Kong to Belarus to Ghana, eagerly tell me: “Atlas Shrugged changed my life.” Scores of business leaders, from CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, say they have derived great spiritual fuel from Atlas Shrugged.

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Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming. --Jim Rohn

The other day I was listening to a speech by a very successful businessperson and it was so powerful that I started wondering why do most of the other speeches that we come across in our lives suck. Look at the voice graph of the speech. One thing to notice is a distinct pattern of pauses. The speech would have fallen flat with out the pauses. The other aspect is the sharp increase in pitch at regular intervals and for a short duration of time.