Bill Goldberg Quotes

There is no upside to making a disparaging remark about a colleague. If your remark is accurate, everybody already knows it, so there's no need to point it out. If your remark is inaccurate, you're the one who ends up looking like a jerk.

Never find fault with the absent.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

As a multisport athlete, I was always fascinated with competition and how to win. At HBS and later at the Harvard Department of Economics, I was drawn to the field of competition and strategy because it tackles perhaps the most basic question in both business management and industrial economics: What determines corporate performance?

Modern competition is often described as a fight of all against all.

I insulted people. I had to - they deserved it. They didn't have any talent. They stunk. They were horrible! But it made it for a fun show.

A lot of actors try to sabotage other actors, and that's sad because then you're never going to get that beautiful scene.

Trash talk is poisonous and a bad habit!

I will not talk bad about the UFC.

What I don't like about Washington, if we say one syllable or one sentence, or this guy said something bad about me, then, all of a sudden, they have to be my mortal enemy. I don't think that's how it works in American business.

I don't talk smack because I feel like it's a waste of energy.

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.

Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well.

Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

It's none of your business what people say about you.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

In earlier years, a lesser effort produced literally dozens of comparable opportunities. It is difficult to be objective about the causes for such diminution of one's own productivity. Three factors that seem apparent are: (1) a somewhat changed market environment; (2) our increased size; and (3) substantially more competition.

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.

Whatever happened in the regular season seems to not matter in the playoffs.