Top Down Quotes

• The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

  Peter Block

  Leadership, Whim, Happens

  Peter Block (2016). “The Empowered Manager: Positive Political Skills at Work”, p.63, John Wiley & Sons

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• We worry top-down, but we invest bottom-up

  Seth Klarman

  Worry, Bottom

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• There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.

  George S. Patton

  Loyalty, Army, Men

  "War As I Knew It". Book by George S. Patton, 1947.

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• Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.

  Joseph Badaracco

  Communication, Leader, Needs

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• If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

  Paul Hawken

  Inspirational, Nature, Roots

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• Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.

  Iqbal Quadir

  Freedom, Bottles, Approach

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• Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

  Yogi Berra

  God, Stupidity, Firsts

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• Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

  Gary Hamel

  Struggle, Political, Authority

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• I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up.
  I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Looks, Down And, Way

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Scientology: A New Slant on Life”, p.270, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Goodness cannot be imposed externally, from the top down; it must grow internally, from the bottom up.

  Philip Yancey

  Goodness, Grows, Bottom

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• Top-down leaders, by withholding power from those in the ranks, deprive them of the ability to use the expertise and information vested in them to respond directly and with speed to customer concerns.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Use, Information

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• I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teaching

  "The Teacher's Journey: An Interview with Parker J. Palmer". Interview with Ron Jackson, www.youthworker.com.

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• Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Challenges, Charity, Relation

  "Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World". Book by Eduardo Galeano, 2000.

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• It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

  Rick Perlstein

  Sex, Mean, Political

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• The revolution here is from hierarchical to lateral power. That's the power shift. So increasingly a younger generation that's grown up on the internet and now increasingly distributing renewable energies, they're measuring politics in terms of a struggle between centralized, hierarchical, top-down and closed and proprietary, versus distributed, open, collaborative, transparent. This shift, from hierarchical to lateral power, is going to change the way we live, the way we educate our children, and the way we govern the world.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Love, Children, Struggle

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• I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Hate, Intelligent, Intelligence

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• I don't think top-down works in America.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, America

  Source: time.com

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• I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

  Grandma Moses

  Sky, People, House

  Tampa Bay Magazine, p. 205, January/February 2008.

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• In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

  Vinton Cerf

  Tendencies, Company

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• It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hero, Men, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1012, Delphi Classics

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• They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.

  Jamie Dimon

  Issues, Reform, Corruption

  Source: www.bloomberg.com

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• The bottom line: All of your investing decisions should be grounded in your own investment policy statement. By taking a "top-down" look at your finances and writing out a road map, your policy statement will add an important element of discipline to your approach.

  Lewis Schiff

  Writing, Discipline, Decision

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• We must renew the economy from the bottom up, not top down.

  Jesse Jackson

  Economy, Bottom

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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