Sunday, August 17, 2008

ACHIEVER (Logrador) quotations & proverbs

Please post your favorite quotations and proverbs with regard to the Achiever talent!
Le gustaría escribir una cita o proverbio que hable sobre el talento Emprendedor/Logrador?

3 comments:

Matthias said...

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."

Marie Curie, physicist and Nobel price recipient.

Matthias said...

"Another dimension of the traditional Japanese spirit is their willingness to bear the unbearable, or come very close to it, a trait that has been commonplace in Japan for centuries and institutionalized under the broad term of gamanzuyoi, which includes the notions of "strong forebearance", "strong perseverance", "strong patience" and dedication to completing tasks.
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All of Japan's most famous arts, crafts and aesthetic practices as well as its ideographic system of writing, required enormeous amounts of gamanzuyoi. The accomplishments of Japan's samurai warriors and of its post-Shogunate soldiers were founded in gamanzuyoi."

Boyé Lafayette de Mente in "The Japanese Samurai Code - Classic Strategies for Success", p. 11 f.

My guess is that gamanzuyoi was invented by someone with Achiever+Discipline!

Matthias said...

(Barron, 1965). In my research with entrepreneurs and successful salespeople, I find that, almost without exception, they have strong needs to demonstrate their personal worth through their accomplishments."

Robert Hogan in "Personality and the Fate of Organizations" p. 19

I wonder whether these needs have to do with Significance, Competition or Achiever?