George Soros Quotes

In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

Indulge in procrastination, and in time yon will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it.

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.

Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it

But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!

If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

It's critically important that people trust you during a public health crisis.