Postponement: the sincerest form of rejection.
—Robert Half
Topics: Procrastination
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn’t understand the problem.
—Robert Half
Topics: Problems
One uncooperative employee can sabotage an entire organization because bad spirit is more contagious than good spirit.
—Robert Half
Topics: Evil
An honest mistake always favors the restaurant.
—Robert Half
Topics: Mistakes
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.
—Robert Half
Topics: Time Management, Time
Aspirations can cure headaches.
—Robert Half
Topics: Aspirations, One liners
People who look down on other people don’t end up being looked up to.
—Robert Half
Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
—Robert Half
Topics: Happiness
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
—Robert Half
Topics: Acting, Ideas, Actors
Convincing yourself does not win an argument.
—Robert Half
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
—Robert Half
Topics: Questions
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
—Robert Half
Topics: Youth
If birds of a feather flock together, they don’t learn enough.
—Robert Half
Topics: Example
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
—Robert Half
Topics: Blame
The brain is a mass of cranial nerve tissue, most of it in mint condition.
—Robert Half
Topics: Intelligence
There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working.
—Robert Half
Topics: Retirement
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
—Robert Half
Topics: Talent
Don’t worry about losing weight; you’ll find it exactly where you lost it.
—Robert Half
Topics: Health
Politics is an excellent career, unless you get caught.
—Robert Half
Topics: Politics
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
—Robert Half
Topics: Leadership, Leaders
The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
—Robert Half
Topics: Society
Talent does you no good unless it’s recognized by someone else.
—Robert Half
Topics: Talent
Ego trip: a journey to nowhere.
—Robert Half
Topics: Ego
Whoever created the name life insurance had to be the sales genius of all time.
—Robert Half
Topics: Security
An M.B.A’s first shock could be the realization that companies require experience before they hire a chief executive officer.
—Robert Half
Topics: Experience
When one teaches, two learn.
—Robert Half
Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
—Robert Half
Topics: Time Management, Time
The longer is the excuse, the less likely it’s the truth.
—Robert Half
Topics: Failure
Work is uninspiring, unappreciated and underpaid-unless you’re out of it.
—Robert Half
Topics: Work
When the customer comes first, the customer will last.
—Robert Half
Topics: Customers
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