Good Quotes For Import/Export Compliance

Being A Good Person

There is never a wrong time to do the right thing.
- Allen Lazar

When you point your finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back at you.
- Anonymous

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
- Archie Frederick Collins (1869-1952)

Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

- Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.
- Treating a person to a meal never fails, and is so easy to do. It’s powerful with old friends and a great way to make new friends.
- Don’t be the smartest person in the room. Hangout with, and learn from, people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people who will disagree with you.
- Everyone is shy. Other people are waiting for you to introduce yourself to them, they are waiting for you to send them an email, they are waiting for you to ask them on a date. Go ahead.
- Don’t take it personally when someone turns you down. Assume they are like you: busy, occupied, distracted. Try again later. It’s amazing how often a second try works.
- Promptness is a sign of respect.
- To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up, fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.
- If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.
- Kevin Kelly, from the book Excellent Advice For Living

People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud
- Maya Angelou (1928-1914)

Business

Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.
-	Anonymous

What gets measured, gets managed.
-	Attributed to Peter Drucker but apparently he did not actually say this

Communicating

I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.
-	Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

It’s not what you say.  It’s what people hear.
-	Frank Luntz

Compliance Program Management

I admire the Good Samaritan for picking up people on the side of the road, but I don't want to be the Good Samaritan.  I want to fix the road to Jericho, so people don't get beat up there.
-	Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

If no one's complaining, no one's listening.
-	Aimee Blanchard, Broadcat

No one gets fired for staying silent.
-	Amy Edmondson

So many people want to look smart rather than be helpful.
-	Amy Edmondson

We don't do compliance to people.  We create a culture of compliance that people want to be part of.
-	Christina Florkowski

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
-	Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
-	Gretchen Rubin

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 
-	George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Personnel Management

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-	General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

Of the best rulers,
The people only know that they exist;
The next best they love and praise
The next they fear;
And the next they revile.
When they do not command the people’s faith,
Some will lose faith in them,
And then they resort to oaths!
But of the best when their task is accomplished,
Their work done,
The people all remark, “We have done it ourselves.” 
    Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher, 6th century BC

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you from the guys who are undecided.
-	Casey Stengel (1890-1975), former New York Yankees Manager

Political Science

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
- Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought.
- Rudi Dornbusch (1942-2002)

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)

"To see what is in front of one's nose is a constant struggle."
- George Orwell (1903-1950)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Perception is reality.
- Lee Atwater (1951-1991)

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Lipstick on a pig.
- Anonymous

There is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things while those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.
- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), in The Prince

Problem-Solving

It's easy to make things hard, but hard to make them easy.
-	Jos de Blok

When two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
-	Unknown

Q: What is the first rule of holes?
A: When you're in one, stop digging.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-	Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)  

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain — he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem, he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills." 
-	William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.
-	H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) 

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.  It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something.
-	Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Miscelaneous

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. 
-	Anonymous, also used in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. 
-	Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)

Gaslighting isn't real.  You're just crazy.
-	Anonymous

Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction?  'Cos I don't.
-	Marvin the robot, from A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

The flogging will continue until morale improves.
-	Anonymous

It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
-	Anonymous

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