"Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to……" — Walter Isaacson
"Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change."
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84 Quotes by Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson has 84 quotes on this site.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish…
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Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a…
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More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the…
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I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies.
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Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to…
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom…
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I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least…
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I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents'…
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just…
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We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and…
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward…
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid…
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Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.
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— Christian Bale
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what…
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it…
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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