David Maister Inspiring Quotes

• Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Giving, Labels

• What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Income, Professionalism

• Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Integrity, Helping Others

• Before a leader can be accepted, let alone succeed, autonomous professionals must agree to be influenced by that person.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Leader, Succeed

• Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Teaching, Students

• The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Winning, Long

• I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Believe, Ifs And

• Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Focus, Want

• I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Hands, Supportive

• What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Determination, Persistence

• Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Determined, Professionalism

• A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Running, Knowing

• When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Proud, Professionalism

• If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Thinking, Clients

• Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Rights, Giving

• More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, People, Quality

• Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Successful, Visionaries

• No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Believe, Giving

• Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Professionalism, Enjoy

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