Bob Burg Quotes

Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

Bob Burg

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• Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Words
  • Vague
  • Properly

• I could maybe coach kids' basketball. I know enough about basketball where I feel like I could coach 12-year-olds pretty effectively.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Know

• I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Best

• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Know
  • Better

• And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Time
  • Read
  • Newsweek

• There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • People
  • Companies
  • Less

• You got a man? That's somethin we will talk about. He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Smart

• It's not about having enough time, it's about making enough time.

  

  Rachael Bermingham
  • Time

• I want to express my personal commitment to continue to strive for a positive contribution of the European Union to lasting peace in the region.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Commitment
  • Contribution
  • European Union

• If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Way

• A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sympathy
  • Silent
  • Regard

• Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • True
  • Possess
  • Determines

• The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Question
  • Picked

• Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Ambition
  • Touch
  • Heavens

• A single factory, potentially capable of supplying a whole continent with its particular product, cannot afford to wait until the public asks for its product; it must maintain constant touch, through advertising and propaganda, with the vast public in order to assure itself the continuous demand which alone will make its costly plant profitable.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • Public
  • Demand
  • Product

• When I look back on the past two decades of my journey today, I guess many people would interpret my artistic practice as a kind of cross-media attempt. I have indeed tried many different kinds of media over the past 20 years and collaborated in many different ways with people from many different fields. However, I like to understand this process as a kind of compensation for having once lost my "right of choice," an exercise of free choice and taking responsibility for any consequences that might result from it. To be honest, it's a bit of a paranoid act.

  

  Wang Jianwei
  • Responsibility
  • Journey
  • Exercise

• Your compensation is directly proportional to how many lives you touch.

  

  Bob Burg
  • Touch
  • Compensation
  • Proportional