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What Rudyard Kipling quote does Steve Huynh use about getting what you want?

Answered from Amazon’s Secret to Success Will Get You Promoted · A Life Engineered · 2026-10-28

Steve Huynh cites Rudyard Kipling's idea that failing to get what you want means you either did not seriously want it or tried to bargain over the price. Huynh uses it to argue that nearly any goal short of the physically impossible is reachable, but every goal has a cost, usually not paid in money.

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“There's a price to everything, and it's usually not denominated in dollars.” Steve Huynh · at 1:12 — open in the transcript →

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