Top 100 Quotes About Pfeffer
#1. Witness Donald Trump's current presidential campaign. So first people need to find the white spaces, the unexploited or underexploited niches where there is less competition and more opportunity.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#2. So we each had a piece of chocolate for dessert. I'd almost forgotten how much I love chocolate, how there's something about it that makes life a little more wonderful.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#3. The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#4. Woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#5. Every day we're one day closer to death. But there's no reason to rush into it.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#6. Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#7. Here's the funny thing about the world coming to an end. Once it gets going, it doesn't seem to stop.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#8. Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing and built a substantial power base.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#9. Systematic research supports the message of these cases. As noted in an article in the New York Times, even in the most extreme circumstances - like the financial crisis - directors bore little consequence for their poor decisions.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#10. When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#12. Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#13. Even in good times we didn't socialize with most of our neighbors. Mom says when she was growing up she did, but so many of the old families have moved out and new people moved in and neighborliness has changed. Now being a good neighbor means minding your own business.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#14. The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#15. The darkest sky is filled with stars, that the sun casts its warmth on the coldest day.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#16. Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#17. I am not sure any of the material in Leadership BS would be helpful for small companies and certainly not their owners. Of course, even owners have bosses and need to worry about keeping their jobs - so Power might be more appropriate.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#20. But I don't want to have to stop feeling. I really think I'd rather die than stop feeling.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#21. I had finished the first draft of 'Life As We Knew It' before Katrina hit, and it was startling to see things I wrote about actually happening in the real world.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#22. All my life I've been well behaved," she said. "It's about time I got to push people around and not apologize.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#23. Siebel's business development executive admitted that all of the company's acquisitions have failed and noted that an internal study indicated that "cultural conflicts" were the cause in every case.5
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#24. Because if I let myself feel the pain and the anger, I think it might kill me. Or I might kill someone else. I know it's wrong to feel that way about God and I know its's wrong to not feel anything. I hate it. I don't hate God. I hate not loving Him.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#25. Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#26. Life's sloppy ... You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#27. There's a difference between charity and love," I said. "What we're offering is love. Love lasts forever.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#28. I wondered how many people had sung By the dawn's early light' yesterday and were dead today.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#30. Trust in tomorrow ... Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow. - Alex Morales to Miranda Evans
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#31. Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#32. But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future.
- Charlie
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#33. That's the function of big brothers ... to help their little sisters when their worlds are collapsing.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#34. We could never truly understand God's will. We have to trust God, have faith in Him, and follow the rules He gave us without ever understanding Him.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#36. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever. But
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#37. What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#38. Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#39. I am increasingly convinced that people who have power are not necessarily smarter than others. Beyond a certain level of intelligence and level in the hierarchy, everyone is smart. What differentiates people is their political skill and savvy.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#42. What about desserts?" I asked. "If the world comes to an end, I'm going to want cookies.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#43. Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#44. But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#45. But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#47. Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals is instructive in painting a realistic portrayal of Lincoln and his methods for accomplishing his objectives. In fact, many good political biographies are useful in learning about power, strategy, and decision-making.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#48. Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said.
Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#49. We can't accept that things will always be bad. If we do, we won't fight to make things better.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#50. He walked out of the office to find Kevin Daley standing there. 'I like your style,' Kevin said.
Thank you,' Alex said. 'I like it, too.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#51. Maybe we lost the things we loved then so we could survive losing every thing else.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#52. I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's would still be open.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#53. Which means every tomorrow is going to be worse than every today. Why feel sorry for myself today when tomorrow's bound to be worse?
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#54. One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#56. Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities and behaviors are useful for getting hired, achieving promotions, keeping one's job, and obtaining a higher salary.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#57. So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#58. You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited range of activities in a small number of domains.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#60. I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks last forever.
But if this is how I'm going to last forever, then I don't want to.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#62. Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#63. With respect to trust, people tell me that it is essential for organizational functioning. Maybe, but most surveys of trust find that trust in leaders is low and nonetheless, organizations role along quite nicely.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#64. I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#65. My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#66. Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#67. This past year I grew up to know hunger, grief, darkness, fear. I began to understand how lonely you can feel even when all you want is to be alone.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#68. Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#69. What interests me more than dramatic heroics are the domestic things: How do people do laundry and find food when the world is about to end?
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#70. I thought about how unlikely it was I would ever meet any guy,fall in love, get married, have babies. Especially since I was going to spend the rest of my life in the cellar, where, in the not too distant future, I'd turn into a toadstool. I hoped I'd be the poisonous variety.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#72. The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#74. I live about 60 miles northwest of New York City, and whenever there's news of a big snowstorm coming, everyone runs for the store. The perishable items are usually the first things to go, which doesn't make sense because they perish.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#75. Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#76. I'm 16 years old. Let me get my learner's permit first. then I'll worry about lifetime commitments
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#77. How can you know if you're normal when you're always alone? You have no one to compare yourself to. I mean, I have my mom and dad, and I'm pretty normal compared to them. But then ... a lot of people are normal compared to them
Anne Pfeffer
#80. If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#81. Todays the first anniversary of the asteroid hitting the moon. A year ago i was sixteen years old, a sophomore in high school.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#82. Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#83. Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#84. This morning the electricity came on for a few minutes, and when it did, Jonny said, "Hey, it's a black-on." This is what passes for humor around here.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#86. About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on.
Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#87. What we were concerned about - what seems to be happening now - is volcanoes,
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#88. The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating.
This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#89. I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#90. For instance, even though entrepreneurs in technology often know the statistics that about 80 percent of founders are forced out of their companies by their venture capital investors, I have never heard anyone tell me that this would happen to them. In
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#91. The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#92. It wouldn't be New Year's without a resolution. I've resolved to take a moment every day for the rest of my life to appreciate what I have.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#93. Their eyes were usually open, and they stared up at the moon that had killed them.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#94. Mom, is the world coming to an end?" Jonny asked, picking up the plate of cookies and ramming one into his mouth.
"No, it isn'T," Mom said, folding her lawn chair and carrying it to the front of the house. "And yes, you do have to go to school tomorrow.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#95. People will envy you to the extent that you start out with a group of people and you rise up the organization faster than them. Get over what your peers are thinking about you because your peers are also your competitors.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#96. overconfident individuals achieved higher social status, respect, and influence in groups.
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#97. So we baked and sweated together. I like punching the dough. I told myself it was the moon and punched it senseless.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#98. Maybe I'm wrong," Mom said. "Maybe the world really is coming to an end."
"Should I try Fox News?" I asked.
Mom shuddered. "We're not that desperate," she said.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#100. My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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