Marshall Goldsmith Quotes
The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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Windows 95 and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture. It is our Gilgamesh epic.
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If I'm in a room full of intense people, I'm pretty normal. If I'm in a room full of people who aren't, maybe I'm intense.
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Two things are vital for me. I've always had people who protected me, and I've always had people who helped me. Before I decide, I consult with three, four people who I trust.
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Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
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The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.
