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When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.- John F. Kennedy
If the rate of change on the
outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the
end is near.- Jack Welch
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it
was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major
anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is
the essence of leadership.- John Kenneth Galbraith
Not everything that is faced can be changed.But nothing can be changed until it is faced.- James Baldwin
Change is the law of life and those who look only to the
past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organisation promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction.-Lawrence Miller
The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organisation promotes a
culture of creative dissatisfaction.
- Lawrence Miller
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.- Picasso
Ask with urgency and passion.
- Arthur James Balfour
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
- Jim Rohn
The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes.- Marcel Proust
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before
they become obvious.- John Scully
Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he
serves.- Unknown
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
- Walter Lippman
Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated.- Dag Hammarskjoeld
He who has great power should use it lightly.
- Seneca
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down.- David McNally
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them
greatly, and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph W. Emerson
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so
much.- Helen Keller
Coming together is a beginning; keeping
together is progress; working together is
success.- Henry Ford
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.- Michael Jordan
It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.- Robert Yates
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.- Albert Einstein
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.- Marshall McLuhan
Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can
get on with creating the future.- James Bertrand
There is a way to do it better--find it.
- Thomas Edison
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.- General Colin Powell
Some men look at things the way they are and ask why?I dream of things that are not
and ask why not?- Mark Twain
To the person who does not know where he wants to go
there is no favourable wind.- Seneca
Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not
caused by the absence of things but the absence of
vision.- Anonymous
We will either find a way or make one.
- Hannibal
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michelangelo
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.- Sigmund Freud
A leader is a dealer in hope.- Napoleon Bonaparte
We must become the change we want to see.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming
attractions- Albert Einstein
The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.- Andrew Carnegie
Accept the fact that we have to
treat almost anybody as a
volunteer- Peter Drucker
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to
apologise than it is to get permission.
- Admiral Grace Hopper
I never worry about action, only inaction.- Winston Churchill
Most of what we call
management consists of
making it difficult for
people to get their jobs
done- Peter Drucker
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity- George Patton
Hell, there are no rules here -
we're trying to accomplish something.- Thomas A. Edison
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks.- Dick Nicolose
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go
back to its old dimensions.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Doing the same thing over and
over, yet expecting
different results, is the
definition of crazy.- Unknown
A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow.- George Patton
The secret to getting ahead is getting
started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and
then starting on the first one.- Mark Twain
Celebrate what you want to see
more of.- Tom Peters
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
- Winston Churchill
I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.- David Livingstone
Champions keep playing until they get
it right.- Billie Jean King
Many of life's failures are people
who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up- Thomas Edison
I know the price of
success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.- Frank Lloyd Wright
The final test of a leader is that he
leaves behind him in other men, the
conviction and the will to carry on.
- Walter Lippmann
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.- Thomas Fuller
The soft stuff is always
harder than the hard stuff.
- Roger Enrico
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.- John Foster Dulles