Assertiveness Quotes

I have a talent for dealing with difficult men.

Don’t mess with me, sir, or you will get stung.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's a dumb question' when I was asked something stupid in the interviews. I just didn't have a lot of respect for authority.

[It] is better to live one single day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Strength lies not in defence but in attack.

Nobody picks on a strong man.

I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

They will be lions while we are lambs: but if we take the resolute part, they will undoubtedly prove very meek.

I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

We have to move toward specificity, intelligence, facts, proof, and mutual affection. What I think people have to do now is be very, very assertive about the utter essentiality of intellectual undertakings.

Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

I'm not a little, shifty guy who likes to make moves. I like to be a straight-line guy, run over somebody if I can.

Donald Trump is as decisive as anybody I've ever met. I just don't see him running around asking various people in his inner circle, "What do you think I ought to do here?" I think he knows what he wants to do, and he seeks support for it or talks to people that oppose him and he may listen to them. But I don't think he's indecisive at all.

You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours.

I've never been pushy. People have said I should have been, more, but I'm not sure. I've watched hugely ambitious people: the minute they've got a success, they know where it's going, they know how to deal with it, and it all happens for them. Great. But that's not the way I - well, I don't like to use the word 'operate'.