Quotes

Emotional Agility, Page 187

Emotional agility… involves moving toward clear, challenging, and achievable goals… not because you think you have to, or because you’ve been told to, but because you want to, because they’re important to you.

The Psychology of Money, Page 187

In investing you must identify the price of success – volatility and loss amid the long backdrop of growth – and be willing to pay it.

Think Again, Page 187

With so much emphasis placed on imparting knowledge and building confidence, many teachers don’t do enough to encourage students to question themselves and one another.

Management, Page 187

The future of business, of the economy, and of society will be influenced greatly by the way we solve or fail to solve the growing crisis of the unions.

Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, Page 187

Getting the right product is not too tough if you understand what customers really, really want.

Management, Page 187

Managing knowledge work and the knowledge worker will require exceptional imagination, exceptional courage, and leadership of a high order.

How to Be Happy at Work, Page 187

Cultivating happiness at work is a deliberate, conscious act.

The Art of the Start 2.0, Page 187

The lesson is this: don’t recruit to make an investor happy. Recruit to build a great startup.

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, Page 187

We’ve failed to recognize that attention is a capacity that must be both intentionally trained and regularly renewed.

Leading the Unleadable, Page 187

…give new leaders difficult immediate challenges with clear sets of expectations and deadlines… You may consider this ‘throwing someone in the deep end to see if he can swim.’ You would be correct. The timing for doing this is perfect at the beginning.