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Alice Schwartz Quotes
19 quotes from Alice Schwartz — Co-founder of Bio-Rad Laboratories, a life science research and clinical diagnostics company..
“On me personally what has been the most important was to understand the value of time -- and this is something that has come from observing him, learning his story and that time compounds. What you do when you are young (and as you use time over your life) can have an exponential effect so that if you are thoughtful about it, you can really have powerful results later, if you want to.”
“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.”
“Everybody wants attention and admiration. Nobody wants to be criticized. The sweetest sound in the English language is the sound of a person's own name.”
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.”
“Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”
“Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Let the other person save face.”
“The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard.”
“It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.”
“Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover?”
“On me personally what has been the most important was to understand the value of time -- and this is something that has come from observing him, learning his story and that time compounds. What you do when you are young (and as you use time over your life) can have an exponential effect so that if you are thoughtful about it, you can really have powerful results later, if you want to.”
“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.”
“Everybody wants attention and admiration. Nobody wants to be criticized. The sweetest sound in the English language is the sound of a person's own name.”
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.”
“Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”
“Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Let the other person save face.”
“The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard.”
“It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.”
“Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover?”
“I feel like I'm on my back, and there's the Sistine Chapel, and I'm painting away.”