Browsing Topic Best Learn To Say No Quotes

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

You have to learn to say no not just to things you don’t want to do, you have to say no to things that you want to do, things that are good to do. You have to realize that every time you say yes to one thing you’ve got to take something else off the plate. Critically, I think you have to realize that it’s easier to say no than to say maybe.

It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don’t want to do. But the biggest trickiest lesson in holding on the stalwart committment to your creativity is learning how to say no to the things you do want to do.

When you arrive at a certain level it’s very easy to say yes: that is the moment to learn to say no.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

One thing my mother always instilled in me is to always know my worth. Don’t settle for less. She used to say to me ‘Iman, no is a complete sentence, learn to say no. You don’t have to explain it you don’t have to say anything after it. It’s a complete sentence.’ So when I came to America 1975, I found out that the black models were being paid less than white models. So the first thing I did was say I’m not going to do the job unless I’m paid the same amount.

Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.

Learn to say no, so your yes has some oomph.

Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else.

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.

Be more concerned with being interested than being interesting.

When you say ‘yes’ to others, make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.

Don’t take on things you don’t believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.

Don’t say maybe if you want to say no.