Professionalism Quotes - Page 2

If you can't do it today, You can not do it in your whole life! Do it NOW!

My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".

John Wood

He was always so zealous and honorable in fulfilling his compact with me, that he made me zealous and honorable in fulfilling mine with him. If he had shown indifference as a master, I have no doubt I should have returned the compliment as a pupil. He gave me no such excuse, and each of us did the other justice.

Charles Dickens

Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.

Charles de Gaulle

Be creative while inventing ideas, but be disciplined while implementing them.

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'", March 25, 2007.)

David Halberstam

There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

Agatha Christie

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

Deliver more than you promise and earn the respect and gratitude of the intelligent, the wise, and the honourable.

Wayne Gerard Trotman