Random thoughts and quotes while wondering what the final version of the GOP healthcare reform bill will include…
“ The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him’?” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people.” – Mary Kay Ash
“Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.” – Stephen Covey
“The secret to having a successful business is to have great employees. Great employees will not work for a CEO who walks around with a financial report in one hand and a bullwhip in the other.” – SelfPerspective podcast
“One of the most important leadership qualities is trust. Without truth, though, there is no pathway to trust.” – Leadership maxim
“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” – Leo Buscaglia, PhD, author
“It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.” – Malala Yousafzai, 19, Nobel Laureate from Pakistan
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” — Thomas Jefferson
“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore, Poet
“Some argue that the only way to reduce the high cost of healthcare in the US is to create a true free market system the that will promote real competition and lower prices. It is funny but I cannot recall ever seeing the term ‘free market healthcare’ in the same sentence with improved access, high quality care and enhanced patient safety.” – Hospital CEO
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.” – Aristotle
“One of the greatest honors for a consultant is to be called a trusted advisor.” – Unknown
“It is very tempting to cut corners and can grind your people on the organization’s financial performance all day, every day, when the powers-that-be at corporate are more worried about their quarterly bonuses, the company’s stock price or the next conference call with Wall Street analysts.” – Hospital CEO
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” – Isaac Asimov
“I do not care who you are, where you went to school, which union represents you, how smart you are, or how smart you think you are — executive, doctor, nurse — you are not entitled to work in a hospital. To run a hospital, or to take care of patients who trust us to help make them better is a privilege, not a right or ‘just a job’.” – SelfPerspective blog