“The people who say,"What guarantee do I have?" I walk away. I'll get you later.”
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People Quotes — page 933 of 5018
“We should always choose to work with people we love. They are the ones who will watch our back and our future.”
“I can't stand those people, speakers in a room, they say this all the time, "If I can just help one person in this room, I've done my job." You have an audience of 500 people and your standard of success is one person? That's terrible. If you help one person in the room, you're an abject failure. You have to change something.”
“The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.”
“I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.”
“When you explain to people what you're trying to do, as opposed to just making demands or delegating tasks, you can build instant trust, even if it's just for that short time you're on the phone.”
“The irony is, the advertising industry knows everyone hates what they produce. This is why they keep looking for new ways to force people to stay tuned.”
“We call them leaders because they go first, because they take the risk before anybody else does, because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected.”
“When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.”
“People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?”
“It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.”
“Leaders don't convince people to follow them. Leaders walk forward alone and those who want to go down their path decide to follow.”
“Leadership is about making people feel safe. When someone feels heard, they feel safe.”
“Too many people write books as a calling card.”
“Usually what happens is somebody grabs me and they always pull me off to the side. Nobody ever does it publically. They say, "I didn't want to be here." Or, "I don't usually like people like you." Or, "I didn't believe the things you actually talked about would work. I'm here to tell you that you converted me." That happens a lot.”
“The Democrats' response throughout the healthcare debate? Give the people more statistics.”
“Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.”
“I don't have to convince everybody in the room. I just need a critical mass of the people in the room.”
“People have accused me of only working with good companies. No I don't. I work with some very dysfunctional companies or unbelievably dysfunctional organizations. The people that bring me in know what they're doing won't work for the future. They know they want to change and they want to change for the right reasons. They believe what I believe and that's why they called me.”
“People who believe I'm an idiot don't hire me and they don't call.”