Follow Up Quotes

• Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Excellence, Crowds

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• Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

  Brian Tracy

  Tasks, Follow Through, Prize

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• The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

  Pia Zadora

  Success, Butterfly, Vegas

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• For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.

  Graham Nelson

  Broken Heart, Care, Fortnight

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• Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

  Michael Nesmith

  Axes, Publicity, Interviews

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• Once we get them in the studio, you interview a person the same way you would interview another. You ask them a question. You let them answer. You try to listen closely and then ask a follow-up.

  Bob Schieffer

  Trying, Answers, Literature

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• Leadership is about three-fourths show-the-way and about one-fourth follow-up.

  James E. Faust

  Three, Way, Shows

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

  Hyman Rickover

  Leadership, Practice, Ideas

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• The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

  Rachel Maddow

  Honesty, Best Things

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• Follow-up is personal. It must be done by someONE; not by someTHING. For it to be effective we must set the pace. We can't permanently sell something we don't make time to get into our lives.

  Dawson Trotman

  Life Changing, Pace, Done

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• Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

  Mark Suster

  Persistence, Entrepreneur

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• In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

  Yehuda Berg

  Action

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 24, 2011

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• The productiveness of any meeting depends on the level of thought given to the agenda in advance, and you should never leave a meeting without writing a follow-up list with each item assigned to one person. And go outside. All the big ideas are on the outside. You'll never have a creative idea at your desk.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Writing, Ideas, Creative

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• Whenever an opportunity comes your way, challenge yourself to first thank God and then quickly follow up with the question, “God, who else is supposed to be blessed by this connection or opportunity?

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Blessed, Opportunity, Challenges

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Apr 12, 2015

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• It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Blow, Giving, Enemy

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• I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up.

  Michael Jackson

  Plans, Ahead Of Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Yeah, but I do call them back and follow up. Most people talk at overweight people, I talk with them.

  Richard Simmons

  People, Yeah, Overweight

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• Destroy your primitivity, and you will most probably get along well in the world, maybe achieve great success--but Eternity will reject you. Follow up your primitivity, and you will be shipwrecked in temporality, but accepted by Eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Rejects You, World, Eternity

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• Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.

  Susan Dunlap

  Prayer, Answers, Today

  Susan Dunlap (2012). “The Bohemian Connection”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

  Paul Nurse

  Memories, Enough Time, Examination

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• When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.

  Gwen Ifill

  Goal, Guy, Chance

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

  John Lee Mahin

  Men, Order, Giving

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• Follow up the interview with a phone call. If Carrot Top can figure out how to use a phone, so can you.

  Tom Cole

  Phones, Use, Interviews

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• The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did once look at his watch, but that was eleven years ago now, and there has been no follow up.

  Douglas Adams

  Party, Years, Leaving

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.410, Pan Macmillan

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