Roger Babson Quotes

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

I have to keep testing myself.

I think a lot about my own game.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

The way I work, I always ask myself, 'What did go well this year, and what do we need to work on?' I always have a plan in my head.

You have to be critical of what you do every day, to analyze it and be willing to push it further.

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.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.

In the morning fix thy good purpose; and at night examine thyself what thou hast done, how thou hast behaved thyself in word, deed, and thought.

No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.