Class Quotes

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

It is good netiquette to use the internet for online education. Learn new things. NetworkEtiquette.net

Would you marry you? Be the right person before seeking the right person. Solomon's bride is carefully chosen for the good of his family, for the good of his kingdom.pg 9

Most people aren't even close to tapping into their true potential

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.

The cloth cap on my headdoesn't tellwhat's in it.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

That’s the difference between them and us. ‘Them’ view foxes as vermin, and ‘us’ identify with the fox.

It’s time someone said it, average living (read middle-class) is not good enough

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.

The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™

A few years ago, a taxi driver told me about a club & a dog. A waiter taught me a lesson about ladders today. Life is full of class sessions for those who have passion & listen.

Word 'Classy' is not for commons. Try to be classy!

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people.

You can find fulfillment in your work, work with all your heart.

The first step out of the gate has to be knowing where you want to end up. What do you really want from your company?

The first step to solving any problem is to accept one’s own accountability for creating it.

Being relevant to your customers only when you’re trying to sell something means choosing to be irrelevant to them for the rest of the time.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.

When you’re a manager, you work for your company. When you’re a leader, your company works for you.

Work/life balance is not about escaping work. It’s about living exactly the way you want to when you’re at work.

What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.

True leaders live their values everywhere, not just in the workplace.

The worst thing in your own development as a leader is not to do it wrong. It’s to do it for the wrong reasons.

When rewards come from an external source instead of an internal source, they’re unreliable, which means they’re dangerous if you grow to depend on them.

Human behavior is only unpredictable and dangerous if you don’t start from humanity in the first place.

Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.

Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.

Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.

The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.

It’s impossible for a company to get what it wants most if managers have to make a choice between their own values and company priorities.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

A manager’s emotional commitment is the ultimate trigger for their discretionary effort, worth more than financial, intellectual & physical commitment combined.

You can stuff yourself with emotional fulfillment until it’s dribbling down your chin & your ego will quickly chomp it down and demand more.

Your dreams and the dreams of your company may be different, but they are in no way incompatible.

Providing the ultimate solution to work/life balance: not escaping from work but living the way you want to at work.

Your company really has to work for you before you’ll really work for your company.

What companies want most from their managers is what they most stop their managers from giving. What managers want most from their jobs is what they most stop themselves from getting.

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it’s safe and sensible to give it.

What managers want most from companies they stop themselves from getting.What companies want most from managers they stop them from giving.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.