Michael Josephson Quotes - Page 4

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• When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.

  Michael Josephson

  Winning, Competition, May

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• What you allow you encourage.

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  Leadership, Authority

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• Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

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  Dad, Father, Play

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• The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

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  Keys, Goal, Effort

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• If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

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  Wise, People, Boss

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• Christmas has a certain universal appeal that gives it meaning well beyond a day to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but Christians have a special duty to experience its sacred and profound spiritual significance and non-Christians have a duty to treat the day with special respect.

  Michael Josephson

  Christmas, Christian, Spiritual

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• Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

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  Inspirational, Character, People

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• No word makes me happier than the word "daddy" when it's directed to me.

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  Dad, Father, Daddy

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• There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

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  Change, Ozone, Moral

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• You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.

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  Moral, Judgment, Holes

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• One of the greatest things about daughters is how they adored you when they were little; how they rushed into your arms with electric delight and demanded that you watch everything they do and listen to everything they say. Those memories will help you through less joyous times when their adoration is replaced by embarrassment or annoyance and they don't want you to see what they are doing or hear what they are saying. And yet, you will adore your daughter every day of her life, hoping to be valued again, but realizing how fortunate you were even if you only get what you already got.

  Michael Josephson

  Daughter, Memories, Dad

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• Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.

  Michael Josephson

  Encouragement, Lying, Successful

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• If one insists on calling all unsuccessful efforts failures the meaning of failure is really quite benign. When trying anything new or taking on any challenge, unsuccessful efforts are an essential aspect of skill building.

  Michael Josephson

  Skills, Effort, Challenges

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• It is better to be unsuccessful pursuing a significant goal that being successful attaining an insignificant one.

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  Successful, Goal, Significant

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• At home, be grateful. At work, be appreciative. Gratitude is a gift we give ourselves. Appreciation is a gift we give to others.

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  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring.

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  Honesty, Responsibility, Caring

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• It can be frustrating and even frightening to observe the success which sometimes comes to outlaws and rogues who seem to refute notions of universal justice. Every time we see a villain enjoying the fruits of dishonorable acts we find ourselves doubting the value of character and the validity of the virtues we have been taught. Thus, it takes character to believe in character, but that belief is always rewarded, often by material success, but always by the esteem it earns from those who matter.

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  Believe, Character, Justice

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• The opposite of success is not failure. Unsuccessful efforts are not failures unless they so discourage you that you abandon further efforts to achieve your goal. Even then, the venture or effort may be a failure but you are not. Failure is an event not a character trait.

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  Character, Opposites, Goal

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• It's a great joy but no test of love or commitment to take your son to a ball game. You really prove your credentials as a good dad when you are willing to take your daughter shopping - more than once.

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  Daughter, Dad, Father

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• Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

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  Gratitude, Kindness, Expression

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• Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

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  Being Thankful, Competition, Quality

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• Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity to become a person of great or petty character.

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  Sex, Character, Opportunity

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• There is no adversity that cannot be overcome by good character.

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  Character, Adversity, Overcoming

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• Don't confuse fun with fulfillment, or pleasure with happiness.

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  Fun, Perspective, Pleasure

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• I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.

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  Life, Attitude, Thinking

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