Best 42 quotes of Miles Anthony Smith on MyQuotes

Abdication Isn’t Empowerment

Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.

Adversity Isn’t to Be Avoided

Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader

Be Chris LeDoux, Not Garth Brooks

Being others-focused instead of self-focused changes your worldview. Living in a selfless manner and seeking to help others enriches our very existence on a daily basis. Get your hands dirty once in a while by serving in a capacity that is lower than your position or station in life. This keeps you tethered to the real world and grounded to reality, which should make it harder to be prideful and forget where you came from.

Build Icebergs, Not Skyscrapers

Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.

Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.

Finish Well; Anyone Can Start Well

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

If Everything’s a Rush, Nothing Is

If you can’t handle others’ disapproval, then leadership isn’t for you.

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

It is either an exciting or scary time to be a leader.

It is sad but true that many business people have no business being in business.

Macromanage, Not Micromanage

Micromanagement is the destroyer of momentum.

Neither care too much nor too little about the feedback of others.

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

Our weaknesses as a worker are only amplified by being in leadership.

Overoptimism Is More Dangerous Than Overpessimism

Seek the Blame; Give Away the Fame

Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All

Show Us, Don’t Tell Us

Smaller Is Smarter: Hint, Bigger Is Not

Someday” is a dangerous word.

Stop Destroying Shareholder Value

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected.

There is a fine line between overbearing accountability and an allowance for mistakes.

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.

We all have something to offer, and we must choose to focus on what we do have to offer, not what we don’t. And remember the dirty little secret is that those who are acting like they have it all together really don’t.

We don’t deserve our job. Period.

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.

You Either Trust Someone or You Don’t