Who I Want to Work with Me
Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 by Frank RocheI’m fascinated by Teddy Roosevelt. I read everything about him. And there’s one quote that keeps coming to me time and again that I like so much. When I re-read it again today, I thought, “That about sums up people I want to work with me.”
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
rick
Jun 17th, 2008
Can’t argue with the quote. Having fully formed capabilities or the ability to learn quickly are also high on my list these days. I may need to develop a great quote about these traits though it is hard to compete with TR.
Frank Roche
Jun 18th, 2008
Rick, great point about learning quickly. That is a great point.
Bill Strahan
Jun 19th, 2008
Next time someone want to spend three days on a mission-vision exercise prior to us actually fixing problems, I am going to open up a can of TR on them.
Frank Roche
Jun 20th, 2008
Bill, that’s really good…and was the inspiration for my post today. It’s so true, TR had it right.