Quotes About Behavior

Look at your own behaviors and ask yourself, "Would I want to be my friend???

Organizations can't change their culture unless individual employees change their behavior—and changing behavior is hard.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

Don't drive as if you own the road; drive as if you own the car.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

The parish priests themselves were often illiterate, and many complaints were made about their drunkenness and violence.

The brain is a funny thing, the way it works, always looking for the most polite explanation...

The measure of a gen'leman is how he treats ladies. They can call themselves what they wants, but if what they says don't match up with how they behaves, well, what they do says far more of who they are than what they says they are does, if you gets my drift.

The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.

Psychological despotism, whether enlightened or not, is gross misuse of psychology. The main purpose of psychology is to acquire insight into, and mastery of, oneself. Not for nothing were what we now call the behavioral sciences originally called the moral sciences and "Know thyself" their main precept. To use psychology to control, dominate, and manipulate others is self-destructive abuse of knowledge. It is also a particularly repugnant form of tyranny.

Entrepreneurship, then, is behavior rather than personality trait. And its foundation lies in concept and theory rather than in intuition.

The greatest wisdom not applied to action and behaviour is meaningless data

The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends. These determine ultimately success or failure of an organization and its efforts. Such changes, however, have to be perceived; they cannot be counted, defined, or classified. The classifications still produce the expected figures—as they did for the Edsel. But the figures no longer correspond to actual behavior.

others is required, it probably indicates a lack of courtesy—that is, a lack of manners.

right conduct can never be established by procedure.

A person's way of performing can be slightly modified, but it is unlikely to be completely changed—and certainly not easily. Just as people achieve results by doing what they are good at, they also achieve results by working in ways that they best perform. A few common personality traits usually determine how a person performs.

The greatest wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

During the process that precedes the decision, no mention is made of what the answer might be. This is done so that people will not be forced to take sides; once they have taken sides, a decision would be a victory for one side and a defeat for the other. Thus the whole process is focused on finding out what the decision is really about, not what the decision should be. Its result is a meeting of the minds that there is (or is not) a need for a change in behavior.

But everyone who can face up to decision making can learn to be an entrepreneur and to behave entrepreneurially. Entrepreneurship, then, is behaviour rather than personality trait. And its foundation lies in concept and theory rather than in intuition.