Marshall Goldsmith

“Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.”

“Gratitude is not a limited resource, nor is it costly. It is abundant as air. We breathe it in but forget to exhale.”

“When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.”

“If the CEO is not going to give you a fair chance, you're probably not going to win.”

“Americans get fatter and fatter and buy more and more diet books, but you don't lose weight by buying diet books - you go on a diet. It's easy to read a diet book, but it's hard to go on a diet.”

“People that have integrity violations should be fired, not coached. How many integrity violations does it take to ruin the reputation of your company? Just one. You don't coach integrity violations. You fire them.”