Daniel Meyer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Business, like life, is about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.
-- Daniel Meyer

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I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.
-- Daniel Meyer

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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.
I spend 60 percent of my time planning, 60 percent with people, and all other duties are completed with whatever time is left
Give yourself a deadline to stop planning and to start taking action.
As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Daniel Meyer famous quotes

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