Top 71 Conley Quotes
#1. The Beatles aren't exactly obscure."
"No, they aren't," Conley answers. "However, creativity can bend in different ways. Only in your dimension did the Beatles sing about a purple submarine. There are a couple of 'Big Green Submarines' out there in the multiverse, but usually it's yellow.
Claudia Gray
#3. When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
Chip Conley
#4. The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.
Lucas Conley
#5. In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.
Chip Conley
#7. At the heart of great leadership is a curious mind, heart, and spirit.
Chip Conley
#8. Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Chip Conley
#9. Sometimes it's good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more.
Darby Conley
#10. When I'm happy like this, it's unfettered--as if I'll never feel removed from life again.
Susan Conley
#11. Stories are what grow from the seeds of adventure. Seek out adventures of your own and then tell some stories.
Marty Conley
#12. Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.
Chip Conley
#13. Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.
Chip Conley
#14. It's crazy how quick our opinions can change.
K. Conley
#15. The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.
Chip Conley
#16. It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
Darby Conley
#17. Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.
Philip Mallory Conley
#18. People don't realize how much control they do have. The more you can show them this control, the easier it is to tap back into the creative side of the brain that allows people to see possibilities and options.
Chip Conley
#19. Bucky B. Katt: I'm not closed minded you're just wrong
Darby Conley
#20. Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?
Chip Conley
#21. Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.
Chip Conley
#22. The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.
Chip Conley
#23. Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present.
Chip Conley
#24. Bucky Katt: A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.
Darby Conley
#25. Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
Chip Conley
#26. When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
Chip Conley
#27. Maybe its time we get a toolbox that doesnt just count whats easily counted, the tangible in life, but actually counts what we most value, the things that are intangible.
Chip Conley
#28. My life is scattered and busy. I think of my home as a resort. When I step through the door, I feel relaxed. I almost feel like I've taken a vacation.
Chip Conley
#29. Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.
Chip Conley
#31. I'm not opinionated; you're just wrong.
-Bucky
Darby Conley
#33. Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it. Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.
Chip Conley
#34. Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
Chip Conley
#35. Here it is out in the open and based - like all love is, maybe - on some amount of abiding affection and on some other amount of need.
Susan Conley
#36. When people get into that fight-or-flight place, then they move away from the creative centers of their brain.
Chip Conley
#37. Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
Darby Conley
#38. I came to therapy thinking that my sexuality didn't matter, but it turned out that every part of my personality was intimately connected. Cutting one piece damaged the rest.
Garrard Conley
#39. Cartoons in newspapers have proven to be an effective means of rallying support during times of war, often by the simple device of depicting the enemy as subhuman or even monstrous - much as they did during the Reformation.
Thomas Conley
#40. Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.
Chip Conley
#41. What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life?
Chip Conley
#42. We're all human. It's the most important, neglected fact in business.
Chip Conley
#43. Mr. Garret," said Charley, "excuse me, but why does it matter to you what your sons think about religion?
Robert Conley
#44. so any limitations to our mutual fertility fell squarely on my shoulders - or rather, on my testicles.
Dalton Conley
#45. I sit in the lap of Adversity and nuzzle at her neck." Personal philosophy associated with the strife and difficulties of life.
Stephen C. Conley
#47. I'd done my time in corporate America, from McDonald's making shakes to Morgan Stanley making deals and, yet, I felt awfully constrained by the uniform - not just my clothes, but how I felt I needed to conform - that a traditional job required me to wear.
Chip Conley
#48. Life itself moves so fast and is so mystical we often easily slip into a force-fed trance that enables us to do only a couple of basic actions, which is essentially to survive and spectate.
K. Conley
#49. I struggled to stay on the pace there in the back half. But, at the end of the day I wanted to win this race. The Millrose is a prestigious event and it's definitely something I wanted to do in my career.
Kim Conley
#50. The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.
Patrick Conley
#51. Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat our meals, how we shower or groom, or how we approach our daily descent into the digital world of email communication.
Chip Conley
#52. Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
Chip Conley
#53. I wish I could anticipate some of the stories and lies that will be told. It's going to be great to get everyone together so we can tell all of the families, all of the wives and children, just how good we were because they never got to see us play.
Larry Conley
#54. Organizations that can diminish fear are those that are able to motivate, create, and innovate.
Chip Conley
#55. The more we ignore our emotions, the more likely they are to wield a powerful influence over us.
Chip Conley
#56. There is a mystery in this, a minor apocalypse somewhere between what these two men once knew of themselves- a holding on to something that, in turn, refused to let them go- and I long to know it, like the old prophets.
Garrard Conley
#57. As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.
Chip Conley
#58. Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.
Chip Conley
#59. The companies we admire are like the people we admire: resilient, authentic, personable, collaborative, ambitious, and humble.
Chip Conley
#60. Your imagination has much to do with your life ... It is for you to decide how you want your imagination to serve you.
Philip Mallory Conley
#61. I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.
Chip Conley
#62. Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment?
Chip Conley
#63. Curiosity has ... proven to be a great ingredient in resilience, a trait particularly valuable in an extended economic downturn. Resilient people aren't made of steel; they just provide themselves with more options, and those options come from a curious mind.
Chip Conley
#64. Letting an emotion move through you is healthy. Letting an emotion define you is not.
Chip Conley
#65. We rigidify our self-image to portray a certain identity to the world, which is one of the key impediments to authenticity.
Chip Conley
#66. It will be in the key of delicious. - Bucky
Darby Conley
#67. This life we all receive is full of invisible boundaries and abstract values.
K. Conley
#68. When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
Chip Conley
#69. If an employee told you he had the flu, you'd send him home. If an employee told you he was feeling anxious, you'd probably tell him to get back to work. But the emotion is just as contagious as a flu virus.
Chip Conley
#70. From ev'ry single window, I see your face. But when I reach a window there's an empty space.
Larry Conley
#71. I can't help smiling. He's the reminder of the best part of our family. He's me and not me. Better than me, because he sees me from afar and still loves me in a way that I can't always love myself. And who can do that? Stop judging themselves?
Susan Conley
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