Marshall Goldsmith famous quotes

03-30-2025

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Degrees
The great Western disease is, â€˜I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,â€™ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Happiness #Jobs #Reality
After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Years #Dysfunction #People
Leadership is providing inspiration and vision, then developing and empowering others to achieve this vision.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Leadership #Inspiration #Empowering
Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Successful #People #Leader
What got you here won't get you there.
-- Marshall Goldsmith
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Hard Work #Sacrifice #Dedication
If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Doors #People #Opening
Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ...' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Thinking #Bmw #World
The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Moving Forward #Way #Positive Change
When we do what we have to do we are compliant.Â When we do what we choose to do we are committed.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Committed
The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Way #Next #Finding Happiness
To help others develop, start with yourself.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Helping Others #Inspire #Helping
It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Problem #Easier
The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.'
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Simple #Leader #Benefits
The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Practice #Challenges #Understanding
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, â€œThank you.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Advice #Pieces #Compliment
The more we are committed to believing that something is true, the less likely we are to believe that its opposite is true, even in the face of clear evidence that shows we are wrong.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Believe #Opposites #Faces
Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Want
People will do somethingâ€”including changing their behaviorâ€”only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#People #Behavior #Interest
To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Helping Others #Boss #Needs
If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Real #Opportunity #Thinking
Great leaders encourage leadership development. By openly developing themselves
-- Marshall Goldsmith

#Leader #Development #Great Leader

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