Bruce Kasanoff > Quotes

“If you're not getting through to others, the reason may not be because they "are idiots." The problem may be that you haven't figured out a simple and interesting way to communicate your messages.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk

“People who live in the past sacrifice their lives in vain. The past offers one set of data, but not necessarily the one that matters most.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“We all like to think we are objective and open-minded, but that is sheer nonsense. Each of us holds certain attitudes and biases that prevent us from seeing the truth. The better we understand our biases, the better we can make adjustments.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“Whether your skill is drawing, carpentry, babysitting, listening, proofreading, or knitting… use it to reach out to others, and help them. There’s simply no excuse for thinking that you can’t do anything well.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk

“Your Kindness Will Lead You to Success”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“When leaders realize that people are what matter most in business, everything else falls in line.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“The best business people are show people, as are the most effective educators and the most compassionate physicians. Whether consciously or not, they operate their professional lives as though they were in show business.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk

“Advice for writers: if you're a writer, a real writer, a really, really real writer, like, REALLY a writer, you should not write a sentence like this one.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“It takes a conscious effort to expose yourself to new ideas.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk

“By first thinking help this person, you will change the way that others perceive you.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk

“If this sounds overly altruistic, I'd like to confess that to me, this kindness first strategy is one of the most selfish plans I've ever hatched. By reaching out to other people every single day, I am strengthening my social network—and, in effect, taking out an insurance policy on my health and longevity.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“Competence is NOT enough.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“Here's what drives me crazy: professionals who think that business is about technology, money, manufacturing processes, or the supply chain. This is nonsense. All successful companies revolve around human needs.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“Relationship experts will tell you that introducing others builds your network.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Self-Promote without Being a Jerk

“The more that you can allow authentic human voices to represent your company, the better your company will be at building profitable and sustainable relationships.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“Incompetent, confident people are not likely to become more competent.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“Companies have no voices. They are a collection of contracts, processes, and financial transactions. They don't go home at night and confront a pile of dirty laundry. They lack kids who couldn't care less about their job title, and just want to hear a bedtime story twenty-four more times.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others

“Your best ideas—the ones that truly excite you—define who you are and what you want. They deserve to be treated like treasure.”
― Bruce Kasanoff, How to Grow Your Career By Helping Others