25 Quotes to

inspire

Your

Operational

ExcellenceInitiatives

If I had nine hours to chop down a

tree, I’d spend the first six

sharpening my axe.

Abraham Lincoln

If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend

55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5

minutes about solutions.

Albert Einstein

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Plans are nothing. Planning is everything.Dwight Eisenhower

If one does not know to which port one is sailing…

…no wind is favorable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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ieve

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at

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gs,

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o t

hin

gs

are

nee

ed: a plan and not quite enough time.

Leonard

Bern

stein

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.Will Rogers

To complicate is easy, to simplify is hard. To

complicate, just add. Everyone is able to

complicate. Few people are able to simplify.

Bruno Munari

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Charles Swindoll

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Frank Herbert, Dune

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.Henry Ford

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

The secret of getting ahead is

getting started. The secret of

getting started is breaking your

complex, overwhelming tasks

into small manageable tasks

and then starting the first one.

Mark Twain

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will

surprise you with their ingenuity.George S. Patton

Everyone has an invisible sign around their neck saying, “Make me feel

important.” Never forget this message when working with people.

Mary Kay Ash

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the

goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.

Mia Hamm

The most dangerous kind of waste

is waste we don’t recognize.

Shigeo Shingo

The only

way to have

a good idea

is to have

lots of ideas.

Winston Churchill

Hanging a sign on a cow that says “I am a horse” doesn’t make it a horse.

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