Immaturity can last a lifetime.
—Robert Half
Topics: Youth
Convincing yourself does not win an argument.
—Robert Half
Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
—Robert Half
Topics: Time, Time Management
Talent does you no good unless it’s recognized by someone else.
—Robert Half
Topics: Talent
Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
—Robert Half
Topics: Happiness
It’s hard to believe that some day I’ll be an ancestor.
—Robert Half
Topics: Aging
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
—Robert Half
Topics: Blame
When the customer comes first, the customer will last
—Robert Half
Topics: Customers
Politics is an excellent career, unless you get caught.
—Robert Half
Topics: Politics
One uncooperative employee can sabotage an entire organization because bad spirit is more contagious than good spirit.
—Robert Half
Topics: Evil
Work is uninspiring, unappreciated and underpaid-unless you’re out of it.
—Robert Half
Topics: Work
Postponement: the sincerest form of rejection.
—Robert Half
Topics: Procrastination
When one teaches, two learn.
—Robert Half
Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it’s only kept a secret from the person who fails.
—Robert Half
Topics: Laziness, Failure, Mistakes, Failures
Death is the penalty we all pay for the privilege of life.
—Robert Half
Topics: Death
An honest mistake always favors the restaurant.
—Robert Half
Topics: Mistakes
It’s easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
—Robert Half
Topics: Right
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
—Robert Half
Topics: Perseverance
If birds of a feather flock together, they don’t learn enough.
—Robert Half
Topics: Example
The longer is the excuse, the less likely it’s the truth.
—Robert Half
Topics: Failure
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
Ability is useless unless it’s used.
—Robert Half
Topics: Ability
Ego trip: a journey to nowhere.
—Robert Half
Topics: Ego
Convincing yourself doesn’t win an argument
—Robert Half
Topics: One liners, Arguments
People who look down on other people don’t end up being looked up to.
—Robert Half
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
—Robert Half
Topics: Actors, Acting, Ideas
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
—Robert Half
Topics: Questions
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
—Robert Half
Topics: Talent
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn’t understand the problem.
—Robert Half
Topics: Problems
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