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Quotes About Conviction

no one's upset by what you're saying, you're probably not pushing hard enough. (And you're probably boring, too.)
~ Jason Fried
If you run your ship with the conviction that everyone's a slacker, your employees will put all their ingenuity into proving you right.
~ Jason Fried
Your goal is to make sure your product stays right for you. You're the one who has to believe in it most. That way, you can say, "I think you'll love it because I love it.
~ Jason Fried
Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.
~ Jason Fried
As you get going, keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.
~ Jason Fried
it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.
~ Jason Fried
When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious. For
~ Jason Fried
Cuando no tienes claro en lo que crees, todo deriva en una controversia. Todo es discutible. Por el contrario, cuando tienes las ideas claras, las decisiones son fáciles.
~ Jason Fried
keep in mind why you're doing what you're doing. Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. You have to believe in something. You need to have a backbone. You need to know what you're willing to fight for. And then you need to show the world.
~ Jason Fried
When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.
~ Jason Fried
the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
~ Jasper Fforde
La gente adopta una fe y se pone muy seria, después solemne. Empieza a creerse cuanto viene amparado o envuelto por esa fe, y entonces se vuelve estúpida.
~ Javier Marías
Basta con introducir un poco de verdad en la mentira para que ésta no sólo resulte creíble, sino irrefutable.
~ Javier Marías
M?su p?rliec?bas ir gaistošas un trauslas, pat t?s, ko uzskat?m par visstingr?kaj?m. T?pat ir ar m?su j?t?m. Mums nevajadz?tu sev uztic?ties.
~ Javier Marías
People believe what they want to believe, and that's why it's only logical-and so easy-that everything should have its time to be believed
~ Javier Marías
I do things by the book, even when the book is stupid. You know why? That's how we get the conviction.
~ Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Our colleague Roger Fisher captured this phenomenon in a wry reflection on his days as a litigator : "I sometimes failed to persuade the court that I was right, but I never failed to persuade myself!
~ Douglas Stone
I shall have to believe even though I cannot understand
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
What is there, Owain wondered aloud, to the sky above him and the soil below, persuades this man still that my words do not mean what they seem to mean in sane men's ears?
~ Edith Pargeter
What is truth? Where a woman is concerned, it's the story that's easiest to believe.
~ Edith Wharton
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
~ Edmund Burke
If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.
~ Edmund Burke