Sunday, August 17, 2008

SELF-ASSURANCE (Autoconfianza) quotations & talents

Please post your favorite quotes and proverbs with regard to the Self-Assurance talent!
Le gustarĂ­a escribir una cita o proverbio que hable sobre el talento Autoconfianza?

3 comments:

Matthias said...

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and success is sure.

Mark Twain

Matthias said...

"Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they have known since childhood. Real leaders don't need clutter. People must have the self-confidence to be clear, precise, to be sure that every person in the organization - highest to lowest - understands what the business is trying to achieve. But it's not easy. You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they are simple minded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple."

Jack Welch in "Winning"

I believe that the talents Self-Assurance, Command and Communication are very helpful in having the courage to keep things simple.

Matthias said...

People with strong Self-Assurance may not like to read this one:

"More important, classic research from the Institure of Personality Assessment and Research at Berkeley shows that highly successful and creative people are typically plagued by self-doubt and insecurity (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