Elliott Jaques quotes

Elliott Jaques quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.”
-- Elliott Jaques

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“No two men living at the same time live in the same time.”
-- Elliott Jaques

Source : Elliott Jaques (1982). “The form of time”, Crane Russak & Co

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“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.”
“All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.”
“An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.”
“I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.”
“I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.”
“It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards of patience is worse.”
“The reward of suffering is experience”
“Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.67, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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