Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Women
  • Guns

• Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Best
  • Educated

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• If I wasn't an actress, I'd never wear make up. I liked being ready in half an hour and arrive on the sets. Even for a no-makeup look, if one has a dark under-eye on a particular day, a little makeup is used. I had no scope for that as well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Up
  • Day
  • Dark

• I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • People
  • Friends
  • Star

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • God
  • Sun

• I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • People
  • Up
  • Funny

• Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Up
  • Long
  • Money

• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Love
  • Positive

• Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • People
  • Small
  • Training

• I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Important
  • School
  • High

• You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • People
  • Food
  • Hug

• I think music docs could turn off some people.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Problems

• I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

  

  Farooq Abdullah
  • People
  • Trust
  • Tragedy

• We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.

  

  Jase Robertson

• In the final analysis, it is your decision to make, but it doesn't move as fast as I'd like it to move.

  

  Alphonso Jackson
  • Decision

• It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Today

• Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.

  

  Joe Garcia
  • People
  • Faith
  • Lost

• When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility