Author: LINUS FERNANDES
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Ratan Tata: Too much ruthlessness
“I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can’t respect him.” —Ratan Tata.
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Aristotle: Darkest moments
“It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” —Aristotle.
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Bob Marley: Relationships
“Relationships are for honest people. If you’re not honest, you don’t belong in any relationship.” —Bob Marley.
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Thomas Alva Edison: 10,000 ways that won’t work
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas Alva Edison.
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William Somerset Maugham: Funny thing about life
“It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.” —William Somerset Maugham, writer (25 Jan 1874-1965).
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David Maister: Clients
“If your clients aren’t actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn’t as great as you think it is.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: Consequences for noncompliance
“Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: Task as a leader
“Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don’t trust your motives, nothing else will matter –because my primary concern is your integrity.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: Autonomous professionals
“Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: Grant that permission
“No one can manage you if you don’t give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: Non-billable time
“What you do with your billable time determines your current income but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: Stop teaching students that they are the best and brightest
“Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: Not a label you give yourself
“Professional is not a label you give yourself – it’s a description you hope others will apply to you.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: No conflict
“Truly visionary (and successful) companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.” —David Maister.
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David Maister: True professional
“A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client’s bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensated by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.” —David Maister.
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Miley Cyrus: Still grey but without any rain
“Just because someone with depression has a better day, doesn’t mean that person got better. The day is still grey but without any rain.” —Miley Cyrus.
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Amy Klobuchar: Real commitment to our rural communities
“It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That’s how we leave no one behind.” —Amy Klobuchar.
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Elizabeth Warren: You’re probably on the menu
“Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate – strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.” —Elizabeth Warren.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Keeping silent about evil
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.” —Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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Bob Iger: Optimism
“What I’ve really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.” —Bob Iger.
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Lewis H Lapham: Making celebrities
“A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.” —Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (b. 8 Jan 1935).
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Charles R Swindoll: Attitude
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact attitude has on life. Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness…
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Dorothy Bernard: Fear that has said its prayers
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” — Dorothy Bernard.
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Steven Wright: Heights and widths
“Some people are afraid of heights. I’m afraid of widths.” — Steven Wright.
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Sir Winston Churchill: First of human qualities
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because, … it is the quality which guarantees all others.” — Sir Winston Churchill.
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John Herschel: Cornerstone of all virtue
“Self-respect – that cornerstone of all virtue.” — John Herschel.
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William Glasser: Start with change in behavior
“If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.” — William Glasser.
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William James: Outer aspects of their lives
“… human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” — William James.
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William Hazlitt: Way to procure insults
“The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.” — William Hazlitt (1778-1830), English writer.
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Logan Pearsall Smith: Bottled essence of our past behaviour
“Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behaviour.” — Logan Pearsall Smith.
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John C Maxwell: Continuing choice
“We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.” — John C. Maxwell.
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Eric Lippert: Professionalism
“Professionalism is not about adherence to the policies of a bureaucracy. Professionalism is about having the integrity, honesty, and sincere regard for the personhood of the customer, in the context of always doing what is best for the business. Those two things do not need to be in conflict.” — Eric Lippert.
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Joe Paterno: Mark of a true professional
“You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional. Professionalism has nothing to do with getting paid for your services.” — Joe Paterno.
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Anonymous: Professionalism
“Professionalism: It’s NOT the job you DO, It’s HOW you DO the job.” — Anonymous.
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Alistair Cooke: When he doesn’t feel like it
“…a professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn’t feel like it.” — Alistair Cooke.
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David Maister: Believe passionately in what you do
“Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.” — David Maister.
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Warren Buffett: Incremental capital
“We’d love to have a business that could earn 20 percent on a hundred million now. And if we put a billion more in it, it would earn 20 percent more on that billion. But…those businesses are so rare. There are a lot of promises of those businesses, but we’ve practically never seen one. There’ve…
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Tom Hiddleston: Haters never win
“Haters never win. I just think that’s true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.” —Tom Hiddleston.
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Simon Sinek: Ambition versus leadership
“Ambition is refusing to quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.” —Simon Sinek.
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Epicetus: Impediment
“Sickness is an impediment to the body but not to the will unless the will wants to be impeded. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to will. If you tell yourself this every time, you will find the impediment is to something else but not to yourself.” —Epicetus.
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John Smith: Success
“Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition.” ~John Smith, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners.
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Mark Victor Hansen: Decide what success means to you
“Before you can become successful you must decide what success means to you.” – Mark Victor Hansen.
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Pico Iyer: Curious challenge
“The curious challenge is that it’s only by living in the moment that we have the time and freedom to get a glimpse of eternity.” —Pico Iyer.
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Simon Sinek: What we do should never define us
“We can define what we do but what we do should never define us.” —Simon Sinek.
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John Ruskin: Happy in their work
“In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.” —John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900) .
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Charlie Munger: Perfectly amazing mental malfuncttion
“It’s your alternatives that are competing for the use of your time or money, that matter in judging whether you take action or not. And of course, those vary greatly from time to time and from company to company. And we tend to make all of our financial decisions based on our opportunity costs, just…
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Warren Buffett: Cost of capital
“Charlie and I don’t have the faintest idea what our cost of capital is at Berkshire, and we think the whole concept is a little crazy, frankly. But it’s something that’s taught in the business schools, and you have to be able to answer the questions or you don’t get out of business school. But…
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Christopher Dawson: Judaism
“Judaism has always been three things: a people or a nation, a culture or a way of life and a world religion or a spiritual ideal. Any attempt to identify it with one of these to the exclusion of the others has invariably led to a reaction and restoration of the neglected aspect.” —Christopher Dawson.
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Bertrand Russell: Because of that HATE element
“Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the Proletariat, but what he really wanted was the unhappiness of the Bourgeoisie. And it was because of that negative element — because of that HATE element — that his philosophy produced disaster.” —Bertrand Russell.
