Simon Eskildsen

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Book cover for Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
When you can articulate someone’s point of view better than they can, it’s de facto proof that you are really listening.
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Andrew S. Grove
“[..] in the work of the soft professions, it becomes very difficult to distinguish between output and activity. And as noted, stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.”
Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove
“Remember that by saying “yes”—to projects, a course of action, or whatever—you are implicitly saying “no” to something else.”
Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

Leo Tolstoy
“No one is satisfied with his fortune,and everyone is satisfied with his wit.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Otto von Bismarck
“Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.”
Otto von Bismarck

Viktor E. Frankl
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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