Bossidy Quotes & Sayings

When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings. — George Lillo

Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing. — Lawrence Bossidy

I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it. — Lawrence Bossidy

People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers. — Lawrence Bossidy

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction. — Claire Tomalin

How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function. — Lawrence Bossidy

If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy. — Lawrence Bossidy

Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability. — Lawrence Bossidy

Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results. — Lawrence Bossidy

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does. — Lawrence Bossidy

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The foundation of changing behavior is linking rewards to performance and making the linkages transparent. — Larry Bossidy

I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore. — Lawrence Bossidy

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them. — Honore De Balzac

In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable. — Lawrence Bossidy

Execution is the job of the business leader. — Lawrence Bossidy

I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies. — Lawrence Bossidy

If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone. — Lawrence Bossidy

U.S.A. is the speech of the people. — John Dos Passos