Henry Sy Quotes

I am a logical person and can handle situations calmly.

At the end of the day you have to keep emotions away.

It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental.

If there is one rule I have, it is you have to remain level-headed.

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

In business, my head needs to rule over my heart.

Always make sure your heart is bigger than your head.

I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

I like common sense, to try and be the voice of reason at work.

In anything you do, if you don't let your emotion take over you, you can make the better decisions.

I do not make decisions based on emotion, because it is my career and I would like to be more practical when it comes to career.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

Zuck is unemotional. He doesn't get influenced by ego.