Quotes on People

Faith in people is an essential quality of an influencer when working with others, yet it is a scarce commodity today.

It is the leaders job to add significance to the lives of the people he leads.

When you believe in people, you motivate them and release their potential.

Seek people who seek solutions.

People will not follow a leader who does not have confidence in himself.

People are bigger than anything that can happen to them.

There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.

Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

People are not afraid of failure, they're afraid of blame.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.

If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.