Monday, February 25, 2019

Do as I Say not as I do by Peter Schweizer. Quotes.

-Hypocrisy has proved to be a wonderful weapon for liberals in their war against conservatives.
-When Chomsky appears on college campuses, he usually dresses in a rumpled shirt and jacket. He is identified with dozens of left-wing causes and professes to speak for the poor, the oppressed, and the victims of capitalism. But Chomsky is himself a shrewd capitalist, worth millions, with money in the dreaded and evil stock market, and at least one tax haven to cut down on those pesky inheritance taxes that he says are so important.
-Publicly, Michael Moore is a populist crusader who stands up to profit-minded corporations on behalf of workers, women, minorities, and the environment. Privately, he is the consummate capitalist single-mindedly focused on money.
-Franken was simply doing what he had always done, putting people down and making fun of them, whether they were breast cancer survivors, drug addicts, homosexuals, or conservative talk show hosts.
-Ted Kennedy's actions match his words? A closer look at his conduct in private life reveals that this champion of liberal causes is really the king of liberal hypocrites.

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Simon Sinek. How to make your life a success. On humility and working as a team

"The biggest lesson I learned, -because I was the boss- is I thought I had to know all the answers and if I didn't I thought I had to pretend I did. And that's stupid. 

And what I learned is that just because I may have the top position in the hierarchy, I am not expected to know everything and if I pretend to know everything it diminishes the value of all the great ideas and the great intelligence around me.

And when things got difficult I would never admit it. I would just put on a brave face and show up. 

And the biggest lesson I learned was to say I don't know, I don't understand or I need help at any level, about any subject and... amazingly I was always surrounded by people who wanted to help and who knew answers but they never offered to help or offered the answers because they didn't think I needed it because I kept pretending that I knew it all, right? Not to mention the fact that nobody likes a know-it-all...

So that was huge for me and when I was willing to ask for help and accept it when it was offered and sort of accept the humility of the fact that other people know a lot of more about a lot of things than I know... I know one thing... and they know lots of things... that's when things really started to move because we were now a team, that we were actually working together".