Quotes

Tribes, Page 127

What most people want in a leader is something that’s very difficult to find: we want someone who listens.

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Page 127

Some of the best feedback comes from what you observe. If you accept it and act on it, it’s no less valid than people telling you the same thing at point-blank range.

Getting Things Done, Page 127

…every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.

Drive, Page 127

Why reach for something you can never fully attain? The joy is in the pursuit more than the realization. In the end, mastery attracts precisely because mastery eludes.

Start With No, Page 127

Avoid both the strongly negative and the strongly positive by staying in the calm neutral range, which is where we find the deals that stick.

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me), Page 127

Fake memories all ow people to forgive themselves and justify their mistakes, but sometimes at a high price: an inability to take responsibility for their lives.

Leaders Eat Last, Page 127

When we divorce ourselves from humanity through numerical abstraction, we are… capable of inhuman behavior.

The No Asshole Rule, Page 127

Many people are stuck in vile workplaces for financial reasons – they have no escape route to another job, at least to one that pays as well.

Switch, Page 127

One way to motivate action… is to make people feel as though they’re already closer to the finish line that they might have thought.

Only the Paranoid Survive, Page 127

The replacement of corporate heads if far more motivated by the need to bring in someone who is not invested in the past than to get somebody who is a better manager or a better leader in other ways.