Weaknesses Quotes

Winners evaluate themselves in a positive manner and look for their strengths as they work to overcome weaknesses.

I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

You need to recognize and sweep aside certain weaknesses which stand between you and your goals. Your persistence develops into a respected, proved, progressive power.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.

Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate.

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

Working on a weakness within a strength zone will always produce positive results. Working on a weakness outside of the strength zone will not.

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.

In most cases, strengths and weaknesses are two sides of the same coin. A strength in one situation is a weakness in another, yet often the person can't switch gears. It's a very subtle thing to talk about strengths and weaknesses because almost always they're the same thing.

A forte always makes a foible.

The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths so strong that it makes the system's weaknesses irrelevant.

I think that [having not a lot of time sweating the details] can be both a strength and a weakness. I think it depends on how [Donald Trump] approaches it. If it gives him fresh eyes, then that can be valuable. But it also requires you knowing what you don't know and putting in place people who do have the kinds of experience and background and knowledge that can inform good decision making.

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.