Top 100 People Development Quotes
#1. As you move higher and higher in the world of success, more and more of your job becomes "people development.
David J. Schwartz
#2. If your business is to grow and prosper, as a leader, you need to focus on people development.
Robert Kiyosaki
#3. People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on.
Jack Welch
#4. Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
Jenny Shipley
#5. Africa's agricultural sector has enormous scope for development, which would benefit both the continent's economy and its people.
Richard Attias
#6. I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
Aloe Blacc
#7. The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
Laurie Helgoe
#8. Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
Condoleezza Rice
#9. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone
#10. When we are devoted to the development of kindness, it becomes our ready response, so that reacting from compassion, from caring, is not a question of giving ourselves a lecture: 'I don't really feel like it, but I'd better be helpful, or what would people think?'
Sharon Salzberg
#11. Management means the development of people, not the direction of things.
Bob Proctor
#12. There's an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung's future will hinge on.
Lee Kun-hee
#14. People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.
Li Peng
#15. It is a fact: Of all the people we ever know in our lifetime, the only thing we have in common with them is a handful of shared experiences.
Joel T. McGrath
#16. The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.
Lionel Murphy
#17. Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#18. The real wealth of a nation is its people. And the purpose of development is to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy, and creative lives. This simple but powerful truth is too often forgotten in the pursuit of material and financial wealth.
Mahbub Ul Haq
#19. People get smarter. The human brain has a potential for development. Some day it will grow big enough so that everybody will see and understand the truth, and then we won't act like a bunch of sheep, and then that wall separates the two sides of us will crumble, just like the wall of Jericho.
Harry Bernstein
#20. We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.
John McKinley
#21. I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.
Meta Golding
#22. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss Jami
#23. The speed at which progress rolls is not determined by the number of people who started pushing it, but by the number of people who are passionate to hold on doing so.
Israelmore Ayivor
#24. Nobody is paying attention to the fact that first of all, a man has to build himself and become a personality
Sunday Adelaja
#25. We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.
Y. C. James Yen
#26. In understanding and developing your true identity, you can stand on solid ground because you are a person of God's unique creation
Sunday Adelaja
#27. Feeling had controlling influence over those primitive people, not thinking. It played a crucial part in the evolutionary development of modern humans. That's why we humans are basically an emotional species alongside being the smartest one.
Abhijit Naskar
#28. The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.
Hu Jintao
#29. You're going to find the people that make it work NEVER quit, quitting is NOT an option.
Bob Proctor
#30. Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than people. How many people prosper in times of prosperity? How many people find their lives developed by development?
Eduardo Galeano
#31. He, like so many of them, came from that breed of international development experts unsparing in its love for all humanity but having no interest in people.
Zia Haider Rahman
#32. Confident people generally handle people with respect, compassion and integrity.
Sam Owen
#33. Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development.
Paul Kriwaczek
#34. I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.
Fiona Apple
#35. When I was 16, I was working on 'Arrested Development.' My memories of being 16 were just trying to keep up with school while doing the show and trying to be around all those people on the show, as much as I could.
Michael Cera
#36. Initially we both did a bit of everything towards making each game but as we began to hire people and the business grew we naturally went in different directions, and away from the coalface of development.
Andrew Oliver
#37. There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into sharp conflict with people's demands that their material and social needs should be fulfilled. Pg. 10
Walter Rodney
#38. Success-minded people tend to be successful, confident, and friendly because they act successful, confident and friendly. People feel comfortable around positive people because positive people feel comfortable with themselves.
John Patrick Hickey
#40. It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.
Andrew Carnegie
#41. The best way to develop people is to constantly get them out of their comfort zone.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#42. We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour.
Sigmar Gabriel
#43. The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
Margaret Halsey
#44. Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
Y. C. James Yen
#45. When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.
Antony Starr
#46. Motivating people is more than having the right incentives, the right programs and the right benefit packages. It's about tapping into the unique passions, personalities and strengths of those entrusted to our care.
Steve Knox
#47. What kind of impression are you leaving on people? Activate the ability for your first impression and last impression!
John Di Lemme
#48. States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
Anna Lindh
#49. Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.
Richard Attias
#50. The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.
Mary Robinson
#51. The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
#52. Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch.
Dave Anderson
#53. Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#54. Revolutions and revolutionary wars are inevitable in class society, and without them it is impossible to accomplish any leap in social development and to overthrow the reactionary ruling classes and therefore impossible for the people to win political power.
Mao Zedong
#55. The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him.
Lao-Tzu
#56. We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.
Nelson Mandela
#57. Some people are busy working on their pose instead of their purpose.
Saji Ijiyemi
#58. If you can lead yourself when nobody is following, people will follow when you are not leading
Saji Ijiyemi
#59. One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
Ed Rendell
#60. Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows,
James McNerney
#61. It is not easy to fight elections with a development motto and I am glad people of Gujarat rose above personal and emotional tangles and prioritized development over everything else.
Narendra Modi
#62. But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.
Bruce Sterling
#63. People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.
Yasunari Kawabata
#64. The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
Tim Berners-Lee
#65. Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.
Dan Shechtman
#66. I think it reflects the reality on the ground, that this was an important milestone that's been achieved by the Iraqi people, and it's a significant development. It's a real hopeful moment for democracy in Iraq.
Scott McClellan
#67. I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.
Les Wexner
#68. People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of their personalities that they find negative or unpleasant.
Lisa Firestone
#69. The income of the world's 500 richest people exceeds the cumulative income of the world's 416 million poorest people. - UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Eric Toussaint
#70. The concert we give is winning. And if all the people in our organization whose instrument is scouting of player development or major league scouting or player knowledge, all play well, we're going to have the most beautiful symphony of success. And I think we have.
John Schuerholz
#71. Leaders know where they can function better. They don't cry over what they cannot do.
Israelmore Ayivor
#72. It's not all that important that you be able to originate brilliant ideas... The more important talent is to be able to recognize good ideas from other people.
Eric S. Raymond
#73. Gujarat is developed because of its people; everyone has participated in the development process.
Dinsha Patel
#74. Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
Ban Ki-moon
#75. The power in people is stronger than people in power.
Saji Ijiyemi
#76. Unless there is free and fair competition, there can't be healthy economic development. And what we have in Burma now is not an open-market economy that allows free and fair competition, but a form of colonialism makes a few people very, very wealthy. It's what you would crony capitalism.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#77. The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.
Michael K. Simpson
#78. Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. As you learn to be true to yourself, you will find that you attract people, work, and other circumstances that reflect your evolution and development.
Shakti Gawain
#80. If you keep looking at your business wishes as delusional dreams you will end up running just another one of them. If you get inspired by your business wishes then plan to find a way and people to make it happen, you will end up mastering a second to none organization.
Sameh Elsayed
#81. People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
Daniel Yergin
#82. Success takes many forms. Most people strive for something unattainable without realizing that it's already theirs.
Lada Ray
#83. Learning to read, and to a lesser degree, to write, are of course the major events in one's intellectual development. There is nothing to compare with it, since very few people (Helen Keller is the great exception) can remember what it meant for them to learn to speak.
Karl Popper
#84. I enjoy my crazy, thank you very much. I noticed a long time ago that those who value normalcy to the point of making someone else feel like shit for being different were assholes. I stopped caring about what people thought of me after that.
Alanea Alder
#85. My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
Alfred Jodl
#86. Good manners is just being respectful of others. Whether you know them or not, you should show respect for all people.
John Patrick Hickey
#87. Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you think about it that way, then business is not separate from development policy.
Peter Blair Henry
#88. Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.
John W. Thompson
#89. Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will.
John Patrick Hickey
#90. A lot of people respond to almost any achievement, positive development, or outright victory with "yes but". Naysaying becomes a habit.
Rebecca Solnit
#91. LTE has accelerated faster than most people had anticipated. It really took off very quickly from the time it was introduced. We did have our internal development road map, but we just needed to accelerate it.
Henry Samueli
#92. IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
Samuel J. Palmisano
#93. Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.
Wade Davis
#94. There is an inherent unity and harmony in the universe. The divisions and disharmony we find on earth are created by the perception of separateness that people developed over a period of time.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#95. Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other people for what they are.
Margaret Mahy
#96. God uses his Word, people and circumstances to mold us. All three are indispensable for character development. God's word provides the truth we need to grow, God's people provide the support we need to grow, and circumstances provide the environment we need to grow.
Rick Warren
#97. While economic development [in Egypt] made a few people rich, it left many more worse off. As people felt less and less free, they also felt less and less provided for.
Dalia Mogahed
#98. Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people
Kofi Annan
#99. It will not do to say that international law is the enemy of the Jewish people, since the Jewish people surely did not as a whole oppose the Nuremburg trials, or the development of human rights law.
Judith Butler
#100. You must showcase your work, achievements and performance in the best possible manner.
Abhishek Ratna
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