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Teamwork Quotes
Quotes on team work to inspire your team, compiled by Laura Benjamin, Colorado communication coach, facilitator, presentation skills and career coach.
"Rationalizations are more important than s_x. Ever gone a week without a rationalization?" (Jeff Goldblum, The Big Chill)
“Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.” Vince Lombardi
"I would rather have 1% of the efforts of 100 people than 100% of my own efforts." (J. Paul Getty)
“Ninety percent of what you learn about the exercise, you learn before the day of the exercise.” (Kerry Fosher, New England Center for Emergency Preparedness)
"Nobody gets muscles by watching ME lift weights." (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of the State of California and former actor)
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." (Jason Kidd upon being drafted to the Dallas Mavericks)
"The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side." (Margaret Carty)
"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." (Adlai Stevenson, Presidential Candidate)
"Clients get the advertising they deserve...some behave so badly that no agency could produce effective advertising for them." (David Igilvie, Advertisings Grand Old Man)
"Far too many organizations are so intellectually lazy that they don't define their problems and opportunities in ways that can seduce their people into enthusiastic, unrestrained collaborative efforts." (Michael Schrage, Author of No More Teams)
"Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of." (Howard Schultz, Chairman, Starbucks Corporation)
"If you want collaboration, you have to reward it...motivation by delegation represents a failure of leadership." (Michael Schrage, Author of No More Teams)
"The lamb and the lion shall lie down together, but the lamb will not be very sleepy." (Woody Allen)
“Even eagles need a push.” (David McNally)
"Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out – with the spiritual help of a gifted leader – how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time." (Tom Peters in Fast Company Magazine)
"There is no wisdom like frankness." (Benjamin Disraeli)
“Cultivate those who can teach you.” (Baltasar Gracian)
“The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.” (Sam Walton)
“Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” (Herman Melville)
"People who are coaches will be the norm. Other people won't get promoted." (Jack Welch, author of "Winning")
"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." (Henry Ford)
"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up." (Marilyn Greist)
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent." (Sophia Loren)
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." (Martin Luther King Jr., quoting Martin Luther)
"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world to do what we want, and it takes the greatest kind of courage." (Ayn Rand)
"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness." (Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love", 1963)
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." (Harry Truman, U.S. President)
"You know how it is; anything that helps the other fellow is an extravagance; anything that helps you is a necessity." (Adlai Stevenson, Presidential Candidate)
"If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z; X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein)
"If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you." (Paul "Bear" Bryant)
"Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health." (Julia Child)
"You must have discipline to have fun." (Julia Child)
"The only way you can make a deal is if you're ready to blow it." (Movie Producer Robert Evans)
"Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that then you don't know where the finish line is." (Comedian Garry Shandling)
"You were born an individual, don't die a copy!" (unknown)
"If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat." (John Ortberg)
"Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.'' (Alfred A. Montapert)
"The more complicated and powerful the job, the more rudimentary the preparation for it." (William F. Buckley, Jr.)
"Never mistake endurance for hospitality." (Unknown)
"You can lead an organization through persuasion or formal edict. I have never found the arbitrary use of authority to control an organization either effective or, for that matter, personally interesting. If you cannot persuade your colleagues of the correctness of your decision, it is probably worthwhile to rethink it." (Alan Greenspan, Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board)
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." (Winston Churchill)
"Don't get buried in the thick of thin things." (Stephen R. Covey)
"When you're going through hell - just keep on going!" (Winston Churchill)
"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself..." (Viktor E. Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning)
"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." (Henry J. Kaiser)
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." (James Bryant Conant)
"Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." (Theodore Roosevelt - April 10, 1899)
"Fortune sides with he who dares." (Virgil 70-19 B.C.)
"I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." (Robert Schuller)
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." (Napoleon Hill)
"No wind favors him who has no destined port." (Montaigne)
"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble." (Frank Tyger)
"Build a dream and the dream will build you." (Robert Schuller)
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." (Henry Ford)
"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures." (Charles C. Noble)
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." (English Proverb)
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." (Helen Keller)
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." (Horace)
"When we are not sure, we are alive." (Graham Greene)
"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." (George Bernard Shaw)
"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains." (Janice Elice Hopkins)
"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." (Jerry Gillies)
"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead." (Chinese Proverb)
"No victor believes in chance." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Our most important rights are those which contradict our emotions." (Paul Valery)
"It is of the utmost importance in the decades ahead to practice ethical business. When you see something wrong, speak up about it. It is the only way to have a clear conscience and sleep at night." (Roger Boisjoly, one of 5 Morton Thiokol engineers who argued against the disastrous launch of the space shuttle Challenger.)
"Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need to much of it either." (Henry Kissinger, 1971)
"Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits." (Fulton J. Sheen, The Way to Happiness)
"The greater 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)
"People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there." (Bob Edwards)
"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees, in every object, only the traits which prove that theory." (Thomas Jefferson)
"A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. (Mahatma Gandhi)
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of
the people who are evil, but because of the people who
didn't do anything about it." (Albert Einstein)
"I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough,
they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their
life." (Lance Armstrong in the movie "Dodgeball")
"People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to." (George Allen)
"The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but
rather in a lack of will." (Vince Lombardi)
“On this team we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job!” (Lou Holtz, U.S. Football Coach)
"Sometimes being a team player means sitting on the bench." (heard on the television show, The Closer)
"Individually, we are one drop. Together we are an ocean." (Ryunosuke Satoro)
"Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations." (Ryunosuke Satoro)
"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do." (Leonardo da Vinci)
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.” (Michael Jordan, American NBA basketball player)
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” (Isaac Newton)
“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.” (Isaac Newton)
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.” (Isaac Newton)
“It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.” (Isaac Newton)
“Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.” (Lou Holtz, American Football Coach)
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." (Winston Churchill)
"A product for everyone rarely reaches anyone." (Seth Godin)
"Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world." (Seth Godin)
"Her confidence in me completely changed my frame of reference. It altered how I thought about my own abilities. This may sound bizarre, but from the minute I got off the phone with her, I could draw better. You can actually see a marked improvement in the quality of the cartoons I drew after that conversation." (Cartoonist Scott Adams of Dilbert fame, after Sarah Gillespie, an editor at United Media offered him his first contract. At first he didn't believe her, but she insisted he was good enough to be a nationally syndicated cartoonist when no one else would even return his calls.)
"The only gift is a portion of thyself." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
“It is not so much that man is a herd animal, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief.” (Sigmund Freud)
“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say ‘I’. They don’t think ‘I’. They think ‘we’; they think ‘team’.” (Tom Peters)
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." (Dr. Seuss)
“If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.” (Robert Schumann)
"Listen, Moses. You've got too many people reporting to you. We're never going to get to the Promised Land if you don't delegate some power!" (Jethro, very loosely paraphrased by William Bridges, author of Managing Transitions)
"Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake." (Napoleon)
"Goals are dreams with deadlines." (Diana Scharf Hunt)
"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." (Walter Lippmann, American Journalist)
"To have what we want, is riches; but to be able to do without, is power." (George Macdonald)
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"Loyalty requires choices. Cultivate business relationships only when both sides can provide special value, or you will soon dissipate your resources and be special to no one. Be selective not out of arrogance, but out of the humility that recognizes the impossibility of being special to everyone." (Frederick F. Reichheld, author of Loyalty Rules)
"Emulate those who have the strongest relationships and best reputations in town - that's my test of who's on track and who isn't." (Laura Benjamin)
“In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.” (Aristotle)
“You can predict a person’s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.” (Earl Nightingale)
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” (General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army)
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night." (Longfellow)
"My grandfather taught me that it is harder to be kind than it is to be clever." (Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon.com)
"What characteristics do I look for when hiring somebody? That's one of the questions I ask when interviewing. I want to know what kind of people they would hire." (Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO of Amazon.com)
"He who hesitates is bossed." (Actor Rod Steiger)
"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they're blind." (Marston Bates)
"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens, we have to keep going back and begin again." (Andre Gide)
"Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim)
"Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition." (Elbert Hubbard)
"The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior." (Dr. Benjamin Spock)
"If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either!" (Dick Cavett)
"Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died." (Erma Bombeck)
"I made a deal with myself ten years ago . . . and got ripped off." (Homer Simpson)
"Well behaved women rarely make history." (Seen on a bumper sticker in Colorado)
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." (Lily Tomlin)
"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up." (Lily Tomlin)
“You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.” (Eleanor Roosevelt)
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” (Jack London)
“I believe that the task of making sense of ourselves and our behavior requires that we acknowledge there can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.” (Malcolm Gladwell, author of "Blink")
"Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train." (Tom Peters)
"One that would have the best fruit must climb the tree." (Thomas Fuller)
"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.” (Margaret Thatcher)
“Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” (Flannery O'Connor)
"Don't give up five minutes before the miracle." (Author Unknown)
"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep." (Talleyrand)
"If you think you're always in control, then you're not going fast enough." (Mario Andretti)
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." (Mark Twain)
"You've done better than you know. You've helped more than you realize. And you're closer than you think." (Mike Dooley)
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." (Winston Churchill)
"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." (Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love", 1963)
Seen in the Cowboy Corral Restaurant, Rangely, Colorado, where there was great food, friendly people, excellent customer service and a spirit of teamwork:
-Notice: Prices subject to change according to customer's attitude
-Notice: This workplace requires no physical activity. Everyone gets enough exercise jumping to conclusions, flying off the handle, running their mouths, dodging responsibility, and pushing their luck.
"We teach collaborative problem-solving; in school that's called cheating." (Edward Bales)
"Being tolerant does not mean that I share another's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience." (Viktor Frankl, The Will to Meaning)
"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward." (Lewis Carroll)
"If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive." (Clint Eastwood, actor, director, and filmmaker)
It doesn't work to leap a 20-foot chasm in two 10-foot jumps. (American Proverb)
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." (Tom Stoppard, British Dramatist)
"The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away." (Linus Pauling, American Chemist)
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." (Mark Twain, American Writer)
"He has too many lice to feel an itch." (Chinese Proverb)
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly understood." (C.K. Chesterton, British Writer)
"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." (Mark Twain, American Writer)
"In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind." (Coco Chanel)
"He who mistrusts most should be trusted least." (Theognis of Megara, Greek Poet)
It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to secure permission. (Jesuit Saying)
"There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow." (Christopher Morley, American Writer)
"Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change." (Herodotus, Greek Historian)
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there is much less competition." (Indira Gandhi)
"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth." (Shirley Chisholm)
"When the tide goes out, you can tell who's been swimming naked." (Warren Buffet)
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else." (Judy Garland)
"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break." (John Madden)
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer." (John Madden)
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it." (Lou Holtz)
“Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.” (SEAL Team saying)
“When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.” (Joe Paterno, American Football Coach)
"A successful team beats with one heart." (Unknown)
"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." (Andrew Carnegie)
"A small group of committed people can make a difference and change the world." (Margaret Mead)
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues." (Abraham Lincoln)
"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was." (Abraham Lincoln)
"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight. But they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." (Longfellow)
“Don't tell your problems to people; eighty percent don't care and the other 20 percent are glad you have them.” (Lou Holtz, American Football Coach)
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.” (Lou Holtz, American Football Coach)
“No one has ever drowned in sweat.” (Lou Holtz, American Football Coach)"If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say." (Tim McGraw)
"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." (Unknown)
"I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings." (Albert Einstein)
"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his grandson will be." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people." (Harold Kushner)
"If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" (Albert Einstein)
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
It takes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on the job. (American Saying)
"Don't work for my happiness, my brothers--show me yours--show me that it is possible--show me your achievement--and the knowledge will give me courage for mine." (Ayn Rand)
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" (Abraham Lincoln)
"In a large family, you learn to share the bathroom, the babysitting, and the last bit of ice cream...everyone wins." (Laura Benjamin)
"You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...no we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball." (Albert Einstein)
“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.” (Lou Holtz, American Football Coach)
"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, 'This I am today; that I will be tomorrow.' " (Louis L'Amour)
"If you chase two rabbits, both will escape." (Chinese Proverb)“
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.” (Lou Holtz, American Football Coach)
“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” (Lou Holtz, American Football Coach)
"Letting the cat out of the bag is a whole lot easier than putting it back." (Will Rogers)
"It's not me...but it's up to me." (Zady A., Work Director, Wells Fargo Consumer Credit Group who realized that as a supervisor, you don't have to change who you are, but you are responsible for your impact on the team.)
"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do. (Elvis Presley)
"A genius is a person who does his homework." (Thomas Edison)
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past." (Oscar Wilde)
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference." (Tom Brokaw)
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." (Writer, Joseph Campbell)
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it's the only thing." (Albert Schweitzer, French Philosopher-Physician)
"What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help." (Donald Keough, former President of Coca-Cola)
"Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request." (Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield)
"The only disability in life is a bad attitude." (Scott Hamilton)
“Climate is what we expect; weather is what we get.” (Mark Twain)
"Well, I suppose you know that men will stand a good deal when they are flattered." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Understanding the spirit of our institutions is to aim at the elevation of men; I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them." (Abraham Lincoln)
"I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views." (Abraham Lincoln)
"Nothing in the world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." (Victor Hugo)
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” (H. L. Mencken)
“Judge intelligence by the answers given to questions. Judge creativity by the questions asked.” (Gerald Haman, founder and president of SolutionPeople)
"If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role." (Boy George)
"I never wanted success if it meant clawing my way over other bodies. I always knew that would make it pretty lonely once I got there." (Barbara Grogan)
"The only way not to break a friendship is not to drop it." (Julie Holz)
"Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths." (Lois Wyse)
"The only failure one should fear is not hugging to the purpose they see as best." (George Eliot)
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." (Gail Sheehy)
"Those who honestly mean to be true contradict themselves more rarely than those who try to be consistent." (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., American Jurist)
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." (Mae West, American Actress)
"Diplomacy is not the art of letting someone have your way." (The Portable 7 Habits, Franklin Covey)
"We have to encourage the future we want rather than trying to prevent the future we fear." (Bill Joy, Founder of Sun Microsystems reported in Jan 2004 Fast Company Magazine)
"Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." (Coco Chanel)
"If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation." (Jean Kerr)
"There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it." (Monta Crane)
"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." (Ayn Rand)
"The first step toward progress is taking a seat at the table and then sitting there long enough. Trust takes time." (Debra Dunn, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Hewlette-Packard Co., Jan 2004 Fast Company Magazine)
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people, first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends." (Albert Einstein)
"Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master." (Stephen R. Covey)
"Can you honestly say that yesterday's four meetings 'at work' were about work you value in life? Think back. Hard. Through each of those meetings, did you sleepwalk? Or did you make a distinct...contribution consistent with big things in this life that you value as a unique individual?" (Tom Peters)
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality." (Albert Einstein)
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, threat by thread, into the fabric of their lives." (Leo Tolstoy, Russian Writer)
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils." (Francis Bacon, British Philosopher)
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof." (John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist)
"The change of clothes; changed, yes, but the same lice of my journeying." (Issa, Japanese Poet)
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." (Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to Love", 1963)
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life." (Anne Lamott)
"I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it and then it's gone. But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying - even more terrible than dying young." (Joan of Lorraine, a play by Maxwell Anderson)
"Ninety percent of managers are typically either distracted or disengaged from key organizational objectives, confusing frenetic motion with constructive action." (H. Bruch and S. Ghosal)
"Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want
to do, to achieve what they want to achieve." (Tom Landry)
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