Quotes on People

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

I did something that challenged the banking world._x000D_ _x000D_ Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor._x000D_ _x000D_ All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.

One of the difficulties in bringing about change in an organization is that you must do so through the persons who have been most successful in that organization, no matter how faulty the system or the organization is. To such persons, you see, it is the best of all possible organizations, because look who was selected by it ad look who succeeded most in it. Yet, these are the very people through whom we must bring about improvements.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose_x000D_ _x000D_ he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it._x000D_ _x000D_ But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life_x000D_ _x000D_ that one exists for other people.

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.