Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous amounts of energy merely

to be normal

Albert Camus

One is not born a genius; one becomes a genius

Simone de Beauvoir

To different minds, the same world is hell, and a

heaven

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you love what you do, you will never work another

day in your life

Confucious

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love

with your work

Sister Mary Lauretta

No one who learns to know himself remains just what

he was before

Thomas Mann

Nothing about ourselves can be changed until it is

first accepted

Sheldon Kopp

The people who get on in this world are the people

who get up and look for the circumstances they want,

and, if they can’t find them, make them

George Bernard Shaw

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to

an understanding of ourselves

Carl Jung

We shall not perish as a people even if we get our money supply wrong – but

if we get our human relationships wrong, we shall destroy ourselves

Reverend Robert RuncieArchbishop of

Canterbury

In terms of game theory, we might say the universe

is constituted as to maximize the play

George Leonard

Most of us assume that we are seeing the world the

way that it really is

Ned Herrmann

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind,

then what is the significance of a clean

desk?

Tom Wolfe

Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between

things which differ, and the difference between things

which are alike

Madame de Stael

The manager of the future will simply be a learning

guide

Peter Drucker

Making unseen business issues visible is like

discovering that stars also shine in the day time

Ned Herrmann

Marketing is simply sales with a college degree

Anonymous

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their

environment; Unreasonable men try to adapt their

environment to themselves. Thus, all

progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable

men

George Bernard Shaw

The world of reality has its limits; the world of

imagination is boundless

Jean Jacques Rousseau

So much of what we call management consists of

making it difficult to work

Peter Drucker

Power is given to you by others. It is not yours; it is in trust with you and it is a great responsibility. Power is to be used for the benefit of those whose trustee you

are

Mahatma Gandhi

The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their

characters. Instead of resisting innovation, they

symbolize it – and companies cannot grow

without innovation

David Ogilvy

Every step we take – no matter how small – to

understand the needs of the people we strive to serve will increase our

bond with them and move us in the direction of a

higher standard of leadership

Mahatma Gandhi

The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders – people who not only have

enormous amounts of energy, but who can

energize those whom they lead

Jack Welch

The man who always knows how, will always have a job. The man who knows why

will always be his boss

Ralph Waldo Emerson

After all, when you come right down to it, how many

people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

Russell Hoban

Precision of communication is important, more

important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger

balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may

create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act

James Thurber

‘Out of sight, out of mind,’ when translated into

Russian (by computer), then back again into

English, became ‘invisible maniac’

Arthur Calder-Marshall

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how

often he misunderstands others

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue

another, a practiced man relies on the language of

the first

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an

orchestra to play it

H E Luccock

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Walter Lippmann

I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow

Woodrow Wilson

None of us is as smart as all of us

Ken Blanchard

Problems can become opportunities when the

right people come together

Robert Redford

Progress is 95% routine teamwork. The other 5% relies on restless, inner-directed people who are

willing to upset our applecart with new and

better ideas

Michael LeBoeuf

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are

promises – but only performance is reality

Harold Geneen

If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve

always got

Peter Francisco

Among the chief worries of today’s business

executives is the large number of unemployed still

on the payrolls

Anonymous

Every calling is great when greatly pursued

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

There is no traffic jam on the extra mile

Anonymous

The man who rests on his laurels will soon become

restless

Eddie Snow

Education, learning, and changing are so closely

related to problem solving that they may all be names

for the same thing

George Prince

The only limits are, as always, those of vision

James Broughton

The reality is that we lose respect for our leaders if

we do not approve of their conduct – public or private.

Leaders who do not command our respect

reduce the legitimacy of their leadership and lose

our trust

Keshavan Nair

When CEOs are asked how much of the knowledge in their companies is used,

they typically answer, ‘About 20%.’

Imagine the implications for a company if it could

get that number up to 30%

Charles Handy & Betty Zucker

I believe that crisis really tends to develop the

character of an organization

John Sculley

Everybody’s role perception tells you their assumptions about how things are supposed to

operate around here. To re-engineer a company,

those perceptions have to be aligned with today’s

realities, not wistful memories of yesterday

Charles Geschke

Organizations are perfectly designed for the results

they get

Paul Gustavson

The world is round and the place which may seem like

the end may also be the beginning

Ivy Baker

To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting

in the wings

Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Imagination is the beginning of creation. We

imagine what we desire; we will what we imagine; and at last we create what we

will

George Bernard Shaw

Strategic leadership requires one other skill. It

is a readiness to look personally foolish; a

readiness to discuss half-baked ideas, since most

fully baked ideas start out in that form; a total

honesty, a readiness to admit you got it wrong

Sir John Hoskyns

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s

experience

Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr

You must be the change you wish to see in the

world

The less you see it, the more you gotta be it

Mahatma Gandhi & Eddie Snow

Everyday the world turns upsidedown on someone who thought they were

sitting on top of it

Glenn Tullman

The things we fear most in organizations –

fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the

primary source of creativity

Margaret J Wheatley

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate

Thomas Watson

Creativity is not a special gift of the few, but rather a common event of the many

D & J Sanders

Everything that can be invented has been invented

Charles Duell, US Patent Office

Director, 1899

Groups with guitars are on the way out

Decca Records Turning down the

Beatles, 1962

There is no reason for any individual to have a

computer in his home

Ken Olson, IBM

What is now proved was once only imagined

William Blake

Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let

their ideals fade and die; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see

and know

James Allen

The future never just happened. It was created

Will & Ariel Durant

The only frontiers that can never be conquered are the

creative frontiers of the mind

Anonymous

We may discover that creativity is a common

human trait

Isaac Asimov

Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work

has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is

incalculable

Carl Jung

Creative thinking deals with shades of gray, not with blacks and whites

Anonymous

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must

be driven into practice with courageous patience

Admiral Hyman Rickover

You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next

level

Albert Einstein

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new

ideas as in escaping from old ones

John Maynard Keynes

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms, and not

yours, to be seized or relinquished forever

Gail Godwin

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea

whose time has come

Victor Hugo

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