… always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. 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
… that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership
– John Kotter
… from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain.
… person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.
– Paul Shane Spear
… always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
– Susan B. Anthony
.. it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
– Max De Pree
…continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, success and achievement have no meaning.
– Benjamin Franklin
…many leaders cannot distinguish the wood from the trees is that they have spent their lives planting forests.
– Paradigms of Leadership
… hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
– James Belasco
… competitive problems American manufactures face result from ineffective top management, petrified in place, unwilling to accept change, failing to provide vision and leadership.
– Phillip Alspach, HBR 1986
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