Top 23 Bossidy Quotes
#1. I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.
Lawrence Bossidy
#2. Aghast, Yasmeen gaped at her before looking to the duke. It's worse than I thought. Not just the Horde, not just the police- you're keeping company with someone who has principles.
Meljean Brook
#3. He was the owner of the moonlight on the ground, he fell in love with the most beautiful of the trees, he made wreaths of leaves and strung them around his neck.
Tove Jansson
#5. A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.
Joseph Reese Strayer
#6. Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.
Lawrence Bossidy
#7. If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.
Lawrence Bossidy
#8. Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
Lawrence Bossidy
#9. People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers.
Lawrence Bossidy
#10. I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.
Cameron Russell
#11. I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.
Lawrence Bossidy
#13. In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.
Lawrence Bossidy
#14. But the rest offended her - and inarguably, because it wasn't a gesture but an emotion.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#15. DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.
L.J.Smith
#16. I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
Lawrence Bossidy
#17. How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.
Lawrence Bossidy
#18. Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Lawrence Bossidy
#19. The foundation of changing behavior is linking rewards to performance and making the linkages transparent.
Larry Bossidy
#20. Your parents may have created you, but they don't define you.
Lisa Schroeder
#21. Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
Lawrence Bossidy
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