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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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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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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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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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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My mindset was that I was always going to be in Toronto my whole career, but I was never naive.
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In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
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Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.
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I don't claim to be a guru, or a leader or anything like that because I think that's the first point people really lose on.
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When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.
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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.
