People who look down on other people don’t end up being looked up to.
—Robert Half
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
It’s hard to believe that some day I’ll be an ancestor.
—Robert Half
Topics: Aging
Ability is useless unless it’s used.
—Robert Half
Topics: Ability
Convincing yourself doesn’t win an argument
—Robert Half
Topics: One liners, Arguments
Whoever created the name life insurance had to be the sales genius of all time.
—Robert Half
Topics: Security
Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
—Robert Half
Topics: Talent
An honest mistake always favors the restaurant.
—Robert Half
Topics: Mistakes
Politics is an excellent career, unless you get caught.
—Robert Half
Topics: Politics
The brain is a mass of cranial nerve tissue, most of it in mint condition.
—Robert Half
Topics: Intelligence
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
—Robert Half
Topics: Youth
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
—Robert Half
Topics: Blame
Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
—Robert Half
Topics: Happiness
Aspirations can cure headaches
—Robert Half
Topics: One liners, Aspirations
If birds of a feather flock together, they don’t learn enough.
—Robert Half
Topics: Example
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
—Robert Half
Topics: Perseverance
Talent does you no good unless it’s recognized by someone else.
—Robert Half
Topics: Talent
Don’t worry about losing weight; you’ll find it exactly where you lost it.
—Robert Half
Topics: Health
When the customer comes first, the customer will last
—Robert Half
Topics: Customers
Ego trip: a journey to nowhere.
—Robert Half
Topics: Ego
One uncooperative employee can sabotage an entire organization because bad spirit is more contagious than good spirit.
—Robert Half
Topics: Evil
Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
—Robert Half
Topics: Leaders, Leadership
Death is the penalty we all pay for the privilege of life.
—Robert Half
Topics: Death
It’s easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
—Robert Half
Topics: Right
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn’t understand the problem.
—Robert Half
Topics: Problems
Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
—Robert Half
Topics: Time Management, Time
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: Failures, Mistakes, Failure, Laziness
Postponement: the sincerest form of rejection.
—Robert Half
Topics: Procrastination
The longer is the excuse, the less likely it’s the truth.
—Robert Half
Topics: Failure