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Praise

1. Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) U.S. entrepreneur, business executive and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Attrib.

 

2. There are two things people want more than sex and money-recognition and praise.

Mary Kay Ash (1915-2001) U.S. entrepreneur, business executive and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Attrib.

 

3. The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say “Well Done.”

John Ashcroft (b.1948) British business executive. Sunday Telegraph Magazine (London) (June 5, 1988)

 

4. Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It’s important to pay people fairly, but  managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people’s souls.

Kenneth Blanchard (b.1939) U.S. management theorist and author. “The Gift of the Goose,” Quality Digest (December 1997)

 

5. Why do people focus…on cash rewards?…we seldom create opportunities to congratulate each other. It’s hard to imagine union leaders storming into a meeting, smashing their fists on the desk and demanding, “We want more congratulations!”

Kenneth Blanchard (b.1939) U.S. management theorist and author. “The Gift of the Goose,” Quality Digest (December 1997)

 

6. An industrial worker would sooner have $5 note but a country man must have praise.

Ronald Blythe (b.1922) British writer. Akenfield. Portrait of an English Village (1969)

 

7. Watch how a man takes praise and there you have the measure of him.

Thomas Burke (1886-1945) British writer. T. P’s Weekly (June 8, 1928)

 

8. The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) British writer. The Way of All Flesh (1903), ch. 24

 

9.. It is essential to condemn what must be condemned, but and firmly. On the other hand, one should praise at length what still deserves to be praised.

Albert Camus (1913-60) French novelist and essayist. Resistance, Rebellion and Death (Justin O’Brien, tr; 1961)

 

10. Slight attentions or a kind word to the humble often bring back reward as great as it is unlooked for…I am indebted to these trifles for some of the happiest attentions and the most pleasing incidents of my life.

Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) U.S. industrialist and philanthropist. Autobiography (1920)

 

11. I praise loudly, I blame softly.

Catherine The Great (1729-96) Russian empress. Letter (August 23, 1794)

 

12. You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can…avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000) U.S. psychologist. Work and the Nature of Man (1966), ch. 6

 

13. There’s nothing more demoralizing than having nobody good performance…the successful culture is one that provides constant recognition and applause. At the same time, it breeds a restless dissatisfaction that keeps you challenging yourself to a higher and higher performance.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter (b.1943) U.S. management theorist, academic and writer. Interview, Strategy + Business (July-September 1999)

 

14. People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.

  1. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) British novelist, short-story writer and dramatist. Of Human Bondage (1915)

 

15. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet. “An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot” (1735)

 

16. I will praise any man that will praise me.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English poet and playwright. Antony and Cleopatra (1606-07), Act 2, Scene 6, 1. 90

 

17. Good fortune brings success, but it is endeavor that deserves praise.

Marcus Terentus Varro (116-27 B.C.) Roman scholar Rerum Divinarum (47 B.C.), bk. 14

 

18. Very few people in the world can be relied upon to work without praise or recognition.

Varindra Tarzie Vittachi (1921-93) Sri Lankan writer and deputy director of Unicef. The Brown Sahib (1962)