Quotations

1. Acton: Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when...
2. Acton: Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely...
3. Anon.: The Creation Of A New Company Policy - In the beginning was the plan and then came the assumptions...
4. Aristotle: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence...
5. Bell: When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully...
6. Blair: Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial...
7. Blair: Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals...
8. Blanchard: In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners...
9. Boren: When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder...
10. Bovee: Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important; 2. Promote a vision...
11. Brown: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars...
12. Browning: Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb...
13. Canfield: One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is...
14. Carnegie: Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors...
15. Chapman: Leaders can sometimes be blinded by their own feelings of self-importance, and more dangerously...
16. Covey: Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management...
17. de Bono: Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way...
18. Drucker: One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic...
19. Drucker: The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management...
20. Drucker: Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed...
21. Epictetus: Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak...
22. Ford: If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's...
23. Ford: The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability...
24. Ford: Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal...
25. Franklin: In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes...
26. George: Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps...
27. Gerber: If your thinking is sloppy, your business will be sloppy. If you are disorganised...
28. Ghandi: A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us...
29. Glasgow: One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before...
30. Gray: In healthcare, as in war, decisions have to be made...
31. Handy: The morality of compromise sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign...
32. Iacocca: If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness...
33. Jobs: Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly...
34. Johnson: We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through...
35. Kipling: If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
36. Logue: Come to the edge...
37. Mandela: As a leader...I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person...
38. Mandela: Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education...
39. Mandela: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head...
40. Mintzberg et al: Strategy can be awfully boring. The consultants can be straighter than we academics...
41. Patton: Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will...
42. Rockefeller: The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you...
43. Seneca: If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable...
44. Twain: It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech...