The core values and ethos of Globalex are encapsulated by these pearls of wisdom on display in our “mind palace”.
We hope our clients and candidates will find them inspirational.
Ambition
"Give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes
"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go." - Captain James Cook
"Ambition is your inner voice that tells you: you can and should strive to go beyond your station and circumstances in life." - Lloyd Blankfein
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that is it too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go." - Joseph Conrad
Carpe Diem
“Light tomorrow with today.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Yesterday is not ours to recover. But tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
“Don’t kid yourself that you’re going to live again after you’re dead. You’re not. Make the most of the one life you’ve got. Live it to the full.” - Richard Dawkins
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot
Courage
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” - Pablo Picasso
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” - Christopher Columbus
“If they spit at you behind your back, it means you’re ahead of them.” - Confucius
Empowerment
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” - Anais Nin
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” - Dalai Lama
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” - Steve Jobs
“Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” - Amelia Earhart
“If you always put a limit on everything you do it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” - Bruce Lee
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
“I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” - Albert Einstein
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” - Niccolò Machiavelli
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” - Lao Tzu
Focus
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” - Jean Baudrillard
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on changing the old, but on building the new.” - Socrates
Gender Parity
“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.” - Simone de Beauvoir
Integrity
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” - Plato
Leadership
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” - Shakespeare
“If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.” - Carl von Clausewitz
Passion
“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” - Nelson Mandela
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” - Henry David Thoreau
Positivity
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” - Mark Twain
“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” - Chinese Proverb
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” - Chinese Proverb
Resilience
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” - Winston Churchill
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Success
“Every team has to understand what their ambitions are. If their ambitions are to fight for the title or win the Champion’s League, you must buy expensive players. Otherwise you continue to stay in your level. It’s simple.” - Antonio Conte
“Some people want it to happen. Some wish it would happen. Others make it happen.” - Michael Jordan
Tenacity
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.” - Pele
“The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” - Albert Camus
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” - Henry Ford
Timing
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“Every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.” - Benoît Mandelbrot
Vision
“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see further.” - Thomas Carlyle
“I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.” - Gustave Flaubert
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt