Marshall Goldsmith Quotes

Improvement begins with I.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Ultimately, I want people to be inspired to go on their own journey of self-discovery.

Each year I have grown and learned new things.

There can be dramas in your life and you can get over them and become someone. You don't have to wallow in self-pity; you can actually use the experiences in your life to push yourself further and help others.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

You can't really help people until you've helped yourself first.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.