Jeff Weiner famous quotes

The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one’s vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things,
-- Jeff Weiner

#Inspiration #Keys #Differences

Data really powers everything that we do.
-- Jeff Weiner

#Data

You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.
-- Jeff Weiner

#Culture #Transformation #Stay True

Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
-- Jeff Weiner

#Communication #Linkedin #Scope

It starts with vision, and the clarity of vision
-- Jeff Weiner

#Vision #Clarity

In order to inspire people, that's going to have to come from somewhere deep inside of you.
-- Jeff Weiner

#Order #People #Inspire

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation,
-- Jeff Weiner

#Obfuscation #Vicious #Transparency

The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.
-- Jeff Weiner

#Leadership #Courage #Business

Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.
-- Jeff Weiner

#Priorities #Important #Talent

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these people doing to themselves? They're killing each other. They're killing themselves while we watch them die.' This is how we came to own these United States. This is the legacy of manifest destiny.

Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.

Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

Language is the key to the heart of people.

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.

I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.

I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.