Dayton Moore Quotes

Good organizations have the ability to debate and argue—this is what keeps relationships healthy. Conflict, when it’s not personal and the end goal is for the right decision, is a good thing, and will lead to productivity. Good organizations and healthy families are built and thrive on the ability to debate.

As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' 

When I learned to accept losing without being defeated, my career took off.” In other words, you have to learn from your mistakes and improve.

If you’re motivated by praise, you’re going to be defeated in criticism.” That goes along with the quote by Warren Wiersbe, a well-known preacher and Christian writer, who said, “If praise humbles us, then criticism will build us up. But if praise inflates us, then criticism will crush us; and both responses lead to our defeat.” Fighting that and finding the balance of being humbled by praise and not motivated by it is a daily process.