"My father always advocated gaining self-confidence outside the family business because once you're in, you never know if you're doing a good job or if people are just being nice to you, " he says.

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"Any industry that achieves high credibility across society has consistent standards for reporting outcomes so that a third party can judge whether you're doing a good job or not, " says Mike Alfred, chief executive of BrightScope.

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The winning percentage tells you if you're doing a good job of choosing stocks.

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Like, be the best you can be at what you're doing, because there is satisfaction in doing a good job, no matter what job you're doing.

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Maybe we're not doing a good enough job of trying to convince you that we wholly support efforts in Congress to buy down the sequester.

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