Isadore Sharp quotes

The reason for our success is no secret. It comes down to one single principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture. It’s the Golden Rule – the simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same.
-- Isadore Sharp

#Simple #Ideas #People

Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need support.
-- Isadore Sharp

#Success #Men #Self

Whatever you do, don't ever use a crutch, and don't ever think of having an excuse for not having said, 'Yeah, I did my best.'
-- Isadore Sharp

#Inspirational #Thinking #Use

Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It's a word that raises people's expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand's name.
-- Isadore Sharp

#Mean #Talking #Names

We are only what we do, not what we say we are.
-- Isadore Sharp

People derive the most satisfaction from doing the best they can.
-- Isadore Sharp

#People #Satisfaction

Living up to your commitments is part of business ethics. My word is my bond.
-- Isadore Sharp

#Commitment #Ethics #Business Ethics

Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.

It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures to resist being defiled

In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever. The stakes are so high just for someone to make a simple exit. And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet; we're so easily distracted, but the world is still designed to destroy you. It just happens quicker and faster now.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'

Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.