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All Quotes Collection
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
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"Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise."
44
"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."
43
"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang."
43
"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."
58
"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price."
48
"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel."
43
"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you."
45
"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."
45
"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people."
78
"To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity."
34
"Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time."
Time,
39
"I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold."
44
"I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime."
38
"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion."
34
"But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy."
29
"After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement."
33
"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
54
"I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length."
45
"It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations."
50
"We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again."
62
"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party."
48
"We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future."
47
"I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press."
59
"We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war."
52
"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."
47
"People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt."
49
"My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut."
46
"Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that."
50
"It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them."
60
"I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold."
196
"The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society."
40
"It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results."
51
"The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?"
51
"I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth."
49
"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."
47
"I am formally accountable to the steering board of the PIC, and I meet with nine ambassadors from the PIC every week. I have to have the capitals' broad agreement with what I do."
57
"I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war."
49
"I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads."
47
"I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No."
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