Marshall Goldsmith Quotes
Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
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I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.
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I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
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Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.
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When I left NASA, I was looking at how you could use space technologies for developing countries' work.
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In the same manner as we are cautioned by religion to show our faith by our works we may very properly apply the principle to philosophy, and judge of it by its works; accounting that to be futile which is unproductive, and still more so, if instead of grapes and olives it yield but the thistle and thorns of dispute and contention.
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Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
