Michael Short famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.
-- Michael Short

#Leadership #Honesty #Integrity
When was the last time you heard an insightful, inspiring piece of oratory from an Australian political leader, an appeal to what is pure and true within humanity: a statement of belief backed by ideas for change betterment, a call to those immutable values wherein lie the potential greatness of people individually and collectively? Such exhortation, such leadership is lamentably scarce.
-- Michael Short

#Leadership #Lying #Greatness
Perhaps the most reliable route to meaning and joy, to plunging below the surface and seeking more than the superficiality of material ambition, is connection with people, places, ideas and issues. Of these, the most important are people and relationships. And the most reliable route to relationships is conversation.
-- Michael Short

#Communication #Ambition #Media

What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
No philosophy, my son; it is of no use to an emperor.
We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
A brilliant inquiry into the contemporary Iranian predicament and what it means for the world. At a time when all too many of our leading thinkers are mired in the weeds of provincialism and narrow ideological wars, Postel has written a work of grace, intelligence, and towering integrity. Reading 'Legitimation Crisis' in Tehran is nothing less than a masterpiece of moral and political criticism.

Michael Short famous quotes

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