Dale Dauten Quotes

Dale Dauten writes plain-spoken, grateful thoughts on relationship, appreciation and time that feel warm and urging.

13 quotes

1. Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

2. It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

3. It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper.

4. Nothing important can be taught, only learned.

5. It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain..

6. If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

7. Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.

8. If you take the best of Wayne Dyer and add it to the best of Anthony Robbins, what you would have would only be half as good as Steve Chandler.

9. One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.

10. Success is an act of exploration. That means the first thing you have to find is the unknown. Learning is searching; anything else is just waiting.

11. The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.

12. To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.

13. Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.