Alice Schwartz Quotes
15 quotes from Alice Schwartz — Co-founder of Bio-Rad Laboratories, a life science research and clinical diagnostics company..
“On me personally what has been the most important was to understand the value of time -- and this is something that has come from observing him, learning his story and that time compounds. What you do when you are young (and as you use time over your life) can have an exponential effect so that if you are thoughtful about it, you can really have powerful results later, if you want to.”
“Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.”
“Everybody wants attention and admiration. Nobody wants to be criticized. The sweetest sound in the English language is the sound of a person's own name.”
“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.”
“Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.”
“Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Let the other person save face.”
“The big question about how people behave is whether they've got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard.”
“It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.”
“Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover?”
“I feel like I'm on my back, and there's the Sistine Chapel, and I'm painting away.”
“One in five billionaires is already in their eighties and nineties. Young billionaires — under age 50 — make up just 10% of the global billionaire population.”
“The Great Wealth Transfer is set to flood $124 trillion in assets from older generations to younger ones. More than half of the total, $62 trillion, is expected to come from the highest echelons of society.”
“Moving science forward.”
“Many of the world's billionaires are far older than the tech-founder stereotype. Alice Schwartz, at 99, has a net worth of $2 billion. She is one of the founders of Bio-Rad Laboratories, a science and diagnostics company she launched with her husband in 1952.”
“I'm not going to sit down and watch soap operas.”
