Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

I need to learn to be more assertive.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'

I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it'll teach you valuable things and you'll grow stronger, which is what I've done.

Try not to say, 'I'm a failure.' Instead, ask, 'What can I do better? What did I do wrong?' Then re-approach.

As we grow, we learn to handle situations differently than we normally would.

Tell a child, a husband or an employee that he is stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that he has no gift for it, and that he is doing it all wrong and you have destroyed almost every incentive to try to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragement; make the thing seem easy to do, let the other person know that you have faith in his ability to do it, that he has an undeveloped flair for it - and he will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel.

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

Don't take criticism personally; take from it what's useful. Apply it and move on to something better.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

I learned really valuable lessons from 'Blue's Clues.' I'd repeat them every day. 'You can do things. You are smart.'

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.