Fernando Flores Quotes

• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excellence

• But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care – which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Organization, Exquisite

• Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Great, Afraid

• Hope is the raw material of losers.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Material, Hope

• I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Power, Trust

  Tags in Imprisonment, Story

• I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Blamed, Circumstances

• I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Made

• Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Honest, Best

• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Behave, Professionals

• That’s why we’re doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don’t have anything against it (Halloween), but it’s not our tradition.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Tradition, Defend

• When trust improves, the mood improves.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Improve

• When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prison, Figure

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Favor

• You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

  Fernando Flores

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Present, Identity

Fernando Flores (14)

Birth:	9th January, 1943
Nationality:	Chilean
Profession:	Politician

About

Carlos Fernando Flores Labra is a Chilean engineer, entrepreneur and politician. He is a former cabinet minister of president Salvador Allende and was senator for the Arica and Parinacota and Tarapacá regions between 2001 and 2009. On March 31, 2010 he was designated President of Chile's National Innovation Council for Competitiveness by President Sebastián Piñera.

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Births

• 1968 - Mathias Rust
• 1955 - Tony Snow
• 1944 - Robert Powell
• 1935 - Norman Foster
• 1973 - Adam Garcia

Deaths

• 2008 - Yves Saint Laurent
• 1991 - David Ruffin
• 2004 - William Manchester
• 1971 - Reinhold Niebuhr
• 1940 - Alfred Loisy