Managing Ego Quotes & Sayings

Investing in auto companies and ensuring a financial collapse didn't lead not from a recession to a great depression may not have been the most popular thing to do, but it was the right thing to do. — Robert Gibbs

Discipline allows you to trade effectively. You can take your ego out of it. You can go wrong 60, 70% of the time and still make a lot of money. If you ignore the discipline of managing risk, you have to be right 80% of the time or more, and I don't know anyone who's that good. — Larry Rosenberg

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. — Michael Jordan

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost. — Joseph Stiglitz

I've become my own solution. I believe in me now. — Cristina Isabel

If Checker Charley was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charley do the same. Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis." He gathered up the bills from the table. "Good night. — Kurt Vonnegut

We largely become what we have observed and respected. — Wayde Goodall

An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self. — Madeleine Sophie Barat

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature. — Leroy Chiao

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things. — Trey Songz

Managers who feel inadequate in their jobs are often unreceptive to employees' ideas and denigrate subordinates who speak up, according to research at a multinational energy company and a subsequent experiment. In such cases underlings might consider voicing their ideas in private so that bosses feel less threatened. "MANAGING TO STAY IN THE DARK: MANAGERIAL SELF-EFFICACY, EGO DEFENSIVENESS, AND THE AVERSION TO EMPLOYEE VOICE," BY NATHANAEL J. FAST, ETHAN R. BURRIS, AND CAROLINE A. BARTEL — Anonymous

We'll go." Her voice is surprisingly deep and forceful. Set in her sunken, shipwreck face, her eyes burn like two smoldering coals. "We'll fight. — Lauren Oliver

To meditate, stew, and brew on too many negative thoughts, distorts and super-sizes offenses and causes anger. — Stephen L. Bowen