Top 30 Bob Nelson Quotes
#1. An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her manager.
Bob Nelson
#2. If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation.
H.L. Mencken
#3. Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don't be afraid of the obvious.
Steven D. Levitt
#5. You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.
Bob Nelson
#6. You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.
Bob Nelson
#7. People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.
Bob Nelson
#8. An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.
Bob Nelson
#9. Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
#10. There are two people that probably influenced me more than anybody out of all the artists out here: that's Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson.
Frankie Knuckles
#11. When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.
Johnny Depp
#12. One thing I like about jazz is that it emphasized doing things differently from what other people were doing.
Herbie Hancock
#13. I've not got much money, but I've got heaps of ideas.
E. Nesbit
#14. Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.
Willie Nelson
#15. Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.
Bob Nelson
#16. People stand in front of an officiant and say 'I do' but that shouldn't mean 'I'm done' when comes to putting time and effort to grow their relationship.
Beth Ehemann
#18. Communicate, communicate, and then communicate some more.
Bob Nelson
#19. His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.
P.G. Wodehouse
#21. It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
Bob Nelson
#22. You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
Bob Nelson
#23. Take time to appreciate employees and they will reciprocate in a thousand ways.
Bob Nelson
#24. If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.
Minoru Yamasaki
#25. I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
Robbie Robertson
#26. Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
Bob Nelson
#27. While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them
Henry David Thoreau
#29. There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others-
Kate Chopin
#30. Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
Lyle Lovett
