Quotes

How to Become a Rainmaker, Page 141

’What am I not asking’ is asked by the most confident, most customer-concerned, most professional of professionals. And good customers want to be asked this fantastic leave-no-stones-unturned question.

A Whole New Mind, Page 141

What conductors and composers desire… is the ability to marshal these relationships into a whole whose magnificence exceeds the sum of its parts.

CrazyBusy, Page 141

Sages through the ages have cautioned us to seize the day, to make the most of the moment, to live each day as if it were our last, but rare is the person who truly does that.

Never Eat Alone, Page 141

Never forget the person who brought you to the dance.

Lost and Founder, Page 141

…sticking to values makes it possible to look in the mirror without hating the person staring back.

To Sell is Human, Page 141

…next time you’re selling yourself, don’t fixate only on what you achieved yesterday. Also emphasize the promise of what you could accomplish tomorrow.

Zero to One, Page 141

The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.

Accelerate, Page 141

A Big Opportunity must be rational (why us, why now, why…), emotionally compelling a sincere, positive authentic appeal to the heart), and memorable (clear, short, no jargon).

Good Boss, Bad Boss, Page 141

…beware… when people seem so smart that you can’t understand a word they say…

Switch, Page 141

When you engineer early success, what you’re really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort.