At Google, she just wants the very smartest people who are willing to work very very hard.

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"I have expected that, over the years, people would start to recognize the athletes work very hard and it's kind of an unstable, unpaid labor force, and you would start to see those numbers creep up a little bit more, " Strudler said.

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You know, the people who I meet now that I find most inspiring who are successful I think are people who are not only willing to work very hard but are constantly trying to improve themselves and to think in new ways, and not just accept the conventional wisdom.

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Some very smart people are hard at work at figuring out how to do so.

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It is laudable for people to work hard to improve themselves, and very few world class athletes are lazy.

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At the end of his presentation he mentioned (possibly a bit tongue-in-cheek) that they were having a very hard time recruiting people to work in China and if anyone was interested to let him know.

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And I think in many ways it's a testament to the hard work of a lot of people in the administration in bringing a very disparate group of stakeholders together for the very first time to agree on one standard for emissions and for fuel economy, something that hasn't been done before.

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