Harry Bates Thayer quotes

“It is easy to fool yourself. It is possible to fool the people you work for. It is more difficult to fool the people you work with. But it is almost impossible to fool the people who work under you.”
-- Harry Bates Thayer

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

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”

“We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.”

“I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.”

“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”

“Jamie's gonna go take a break now, and i am going to continue the on-going process of making a fool of myself and go ahead and try it myself.”

“Never call a man a fool; borrow from him”

Source : Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1908). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom”

“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”

“Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.”

“Only fools and passengers drink at sea.”