Mark Goulston quotes

Mark Goulston quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.”
-- Mark Goulston

Source : Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg (1996). “Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior”, p.177, Penguin

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“The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.”
-- Mark Goulston

Source : Mark Goulston (2015). “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone”, p.63, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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“Wealth is what you take from the world; worth is what you give back.”
-- Mark Goulston

Source : Mark Goulston (2006). “Get Out of Your Own Way at Work--and Help Others Do the Same: Conquer Self-defeating Behavior on the Job”, p.248, Penguin

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“Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life.”
-- Mark Goulston

Source : Mark Goulston (2015). “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone”, p.21, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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“Be more interested than interesting.”
-- Mark Goulston

#Interesting Quotes

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
“Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.”
“To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso
“If animals could speak, mankind would weep.”
“The avarice of mankind is insatiable.”
“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.”
“You can't answer violence with counter violence ... The answer is love. The best sabotage is love.”
“The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.”
“Human beings invent just as many ways to sabotage their lives as to improve them.”

Source : Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg (1996). “Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior”, p.177, Penguin

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