A promising junior executive of IBM was involved in a risky venture for the company and managed to lose over $10 million in the gamble. It was a disaster. When Watson called the nervous executive into his office, the young man blurted out, ‘I guess you want my resignation?’ Watson said, ‘You can’t be serious. We’ve just spent $10 million educating you!
– Warren Bennis
I like my job because it involves learning. I like being around smart people who are trying to figure out new things. I like the fact that if people really try, they can figure out how to invent things that actually have an impact.
– Bill Gates
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing
– Warren Bennis
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing
– Albert Einstein
Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
– Winston S Churchill
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
– Bertrand Russell
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
– Albert Einstein
Change is the end result of all true learning.
– Leo Buscaglia
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be a mind.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Change is inevitable…. your attitude to it is not
– Paradigms of Leadership
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