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