“Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage las...” — Marshall Goldsmith Quote

“Our inner beliefs trigger failure before it happens. They sabotage lasting change by canceling its possibility. We employ these beliefs as articles of faith to justify our inaction and then wish away the result. I call them belief triggers.”

“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.”

“Life is short. Do whatever you can to help people - not for status, but because the 95-year-old you will be proud if you did help people and disappointed if you didn't.”

“No, originally I thought that writing articles would keep me from having to see a psychiatrist, but I became even more depressed as a result.”

“I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find them fascinating, whether they live in boiling pools at Yellowstone, around thermal vents at the floors of the oceans, or on Mars, where NASA has been searching for them as the first evidence of life beyond Earth.”

“At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.”