Halo Effect Quotes

A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

Everything that liberals want they call a civil right. This avoids them having to argue about it and puts the halo around the issue.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to believe many good things about that person - you will be biased in their favor. Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction.

There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.

President Barack Obama was amazing. You know how you imagine it would be to meet a celebrity, and that person may actually have a halo around them or something? Well, he did! He was tall, and he had a halo!

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

Elvis wore a halo. Otis Redding did, too. You knew you were playing with a star when you played with them.

Every day that I’m in office and every day I push my program, I’ll be losing part of my ability to be influential because that’s in the nature of what the President does. He uses up capital…. I want you guys to get off your asses and do everything possible to get everything in my program passed as soon as possible before the aura and the halo that surrounds me disappear.

I just don't like that you can either be ugly and smart or pretty and dumb, or ugly and nice or pretty and mean.

A pretty girl can do no wrong.