„Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.“
Fuente: The Bridal Season
Connie Brockway7
escritora estadounidense 1954Citas similares
— Eric Schmidt software engineer, businessman 1955
The Wall Street Journal (August 14, 2010) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704901104575423294099527212.html.
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
The management philosophy here really is to give people enough rope to hang themselves. We hire people to tell us what to do. That's what we pay them for.
1990s
Fuente: Steve Jobs, 1996, Fresh Air radio interview by Terry Gross, npr.org http://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141115121/steve-jobs-computer-science-is-a-liberal-art, audio 26:30/31:05
Fuente: Steve Jobs 1982, interview in InfoWorld March 4, 1982, p.15 books.google https://books.google.fr/books?id=gT4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=rope
„If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.“
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
Credited to Shaw in the lead in to the mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) and other recent works, but this or slight variants of it are also sometimes attributed to W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, and Oscar Wilde. It might possibly be derived from Shaw's statement in John Bull's Other Island (1907): "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."
Another possibility is that it is derived from Shaw's characteristic of Mark Twain: "He has to put things in such a way as to make people who would otherwise hang him believe he is joking."
Variants:
If you are going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
Disputed
— Keith Olbermann American sports and political commentator 1959
" Senior Convocation Speech http://www.news.cornell.edu/campus/Olbermann_speech.html," Cornell University (1998-05-23)
— Frances Hardinge, libro Fly by Night
Fuente: Fly by Night
— Shirley Jackson, libro The Haunting of Hill House
Fuente: The Haunting of Hill House
„Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.“
— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
Fuente: Time Enough for Love
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
Fuente: Long Day's Journey into Night (1955), Page 76 (Act 2, Scene 1)
„Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.“
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss philosopher and poet 1821 - 1881
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Journal
„What would I do without you?
You're never going to find out.“
— Sylvia Day American writer 1973
Fuente: Reflected in You
— George S. Patton United States Army general 1885 - 1945
War As I Knew It (1947) "Reflections and Suggestions"
— Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)
— George W. Bush 43rd President of the United States 1946
Answering a question regarding Katrina aftermath and what went wrong with government response — September 6, 2005. http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050906.html
2000s, 2005
— Harry Truman American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953) 1884 - 1972
Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=r03gAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+have+found+the+best+way+to+give+advice+to+your+children+is+to+find+out+what+they+want+and+then+advise+them+to+do+it%22&pg=PA104#v=onepage with Margaret Truman, sitting in for host Edward R. Murrow, on Person to Person, CBS Television ( 27 May 1955 http://www.tv.com/shows/person-to-person/may-27-1955-1040725/)
