Patrick Lencioni Quotes
I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
![Patrick Lencioni](http://cdn.citatis.com/img/a/8/4072.v4.jpg)
Quotes to Explore
-
The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
-
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
-
I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.
-
I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
-
I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
-
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
-
When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
-
People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
-
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
-
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
-
What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
-
It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
-
My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.
-
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
-
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
-
Marriage is socialism among two people.
-
I think a lot about the private emotions of black people - what we feel and yet is rarely publicly expressed.
-
There's work for everybody, and I believe every actor gets what he/she deserves. Honestly, I just want to work as long as I can and do great films and act with every good actor around.
-
For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
-
I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.
-
If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.
-
If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
-
I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.