Quotes

Influence, Page 371

…scholarship indicate[s] that political-party adherents base many of their decisions on loyalty – born of feelings of ‘we’-ness.

Influence, Page 372

…’we’-group bias corrodes the judgments even of individual specifically selected and trained to be able to banish the bias.

The Effective Executive, Page 374

Even the most brilliant executive is human and thus prone to mistakes and prejudices.

The Messy Middle, Page 374

Be satisfied with your life, but not with what you’ve made. Strive to be more fulfilled by what you’re doing than what you’ve done. Keep on doing.

Influence, Page 375

The thing most likely to guide a person’s behavioral decisions isn’t the most potent or instructive aspects of the whole situation; instead, it’s the one that is most prominent in consciousness at the time of decision.

The Effective Executive, Page 377

Knowledge is useless to executives until it has been translated into deeds.

Management, Page 377

Freedom without law is license, which soon degenerates into anarchy, and shortly thereafter, into tyranny.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 381

What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 381

Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.

Management, Page 382

The creative innovator does not invent a product or service; her perfects and positions it.