G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great code didn’t always announce itself. Sometimes it came as a legendary snack. Sometimes it was the hidden patch that kept a whole structure from falling apart. Either way, she’d find it. And figure out what made it work.”
Source: Noetic Gravity
“Great coders are today’s rock stars.”
“Great coffee is an art, and every barista is an artist in the making.”
“Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners”
“Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.”
Source: The Spirit of Laws
“Great communication begins with connection.”
“Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.”
“Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.”
“Great communicators don't just hear the words. Great communicators hear the meaning behind the words”
“Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying to reach and what they can and can't hear. They send their message in through an open door rather than trying to push it through a wall.”
“Great communicators leave their audiences with great clarity.”
Source: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
“Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.”
“Great companies are built on great products.”
“Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.”
“Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.”
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.”
“Great companies create an environment in which employees act like owners. They do this through clear communication, articulation of clear vision and priorities, coaching and openness to debate/discussion. I would argue that this type of environment helps people to be at their best - and helps the company to be at its best.”
“Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.”
“Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.”
“Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left.”
Source: Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
“Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.”
“Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.”
“Great companies make meaning. A company has a name, but its people give it meaning.”
“Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.”
“Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.”
“Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.”
“Great compassion makes a peaceful heart. A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person. A peaceful person makes a peaceful family. A peaceful family makes a peaceful community. A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation. A peaceful nation makes a peaceful world.”
“Great compassion penetrates into the marrow of the bone. It is the support of all living beings. Like the love of a parent for an only child, the tenderness of the Compassionate One is all-pervasive.”
“Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.”
“Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.”
“Great contests generally excite great animosities.”
Source: The history of Rome
“Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.”
“Great cooking favors the prepared hands.”
“Great cooking is about being inspired by the simple things around you - fresh markets, various spices. It doesn't necessarily have to look fancy.”
“Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.”
Source: Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
“Great. Cool, really love that new motto, covers all bases. Yep. Cool. This is all fine.”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Blood
“Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions.”
Source: Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement
“Great countries are those that produce great people.”
“Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.”
“Great courage, Joe.”
Source: Woke Up in a Strange Place
“Great courage will be required to choose the right.”
“Great creative ideas and pioneering intentions come to humanity not because we merely want them, but because we need them. They come first to the people who can access them because of high aspirations to help serve humanity and add more meaning to the world.”
Source: 8 Types of Leaders: Every Leader Should Know
“Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.”
“Great creators like Yves Saint Laurent or Jimmi Hendrix; they are people who are so smart and so sensitive. They have such a sharp vision of life that everyday life is complicated for them. They are moved and shocked with so many things that they have to make it positive with creation.”
“Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.”
“Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.”
“Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.”
Source: The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
“Great critics, of whom there are piteously few, build a home for the truth.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.”
Source: The House of Intellect
“Great customer service alone can make us buy something we know we do not need.”