Dale Dauten Quotes

#1. Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.

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#2. There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

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#3. Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

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#4. Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.

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#5. Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

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#6. The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

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#7. A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

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#8. If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.

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#9. If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step ... the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

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#10. One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

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#11. It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

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#12. Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

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#13. Forget the resolutions. Forget control and discipline ... too much work. Instead try experimenting. Go in search of something to fall in love with ... something about yourself, your career, your spouse

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#14. To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

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#15. It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

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#16. Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

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#17. Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

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#18. Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

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#19. Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

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