Quotes

Brothers and Sisters (TV Show)

• You didn't get the mother you wanted, now the question is, do you want the mother you got?

Peter Drucker

• Every single pressing social and global issue of our time is a business opportunity.
• Build on people’s strengths so that you make their weaknesses irrelevant.
• The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
• Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
• The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
• There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
• The first rule of decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Hunter Lovins

• Hypocrisy is the first step towards real change.
• Government is best when it steers, not rows.
• It's not who you know and it's not what you know, instead, it's who knows what you know.
• If you want advice, ask for money. If you want money, ask for advice.

Joey Shepp

• If you are not totally transparent, people will see right through you.

Howard Aiken

• Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Stephen M.R. Covey

• Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust.

Duke Stump

• Marketing is dead. Focus instead on maximizing resonance and relevance.
• The world doesn't need managers, the world needs gardeners that nurture people.
• What would a business be like if profit were optimized rather than maximized?
• Businesses should ask: "What does the world need most that we are the most qualified to deliver?"

Max Dunn

• Cockiness can take us far. But humility can take us further.
• The question should not be: "Can a profitable business incorporate sustainability?" Instead the question should be: "Can a sustainable business incorporate profitability?"
• A major milestone of maturity is accepting that reasonable people can have opinions different from our own.
• Sometimes the hardest, bravest, and smartest thing to do is to give in.
• All of our interactions with others should consist of equal parts talking and listening.
• Love is: Losing the battle to see who can stand the most dirty dishes piling up in the sink.
• Love is: Watching your wife eat most of your gelato after deciding she didn't want her own. 
• I would lead a simpler life, except it is so much fun to buy things to become more sustainable!

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin

• When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.

Frank A. Clark

• If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Unknown

• Leadership is helping others achieve great things.

Margaret Hartwell

• You need a therapist for yesterday, a Zen master for today and a coach for tomorrow.

Randy Hayes

• It's not enough to be right - you have to be effective.
• Sustainability is having a lifestyle that is so attractive that everyone wants it, and when they have it, the earth's systems increasingly flourish with each generation.

Mark Twain

• I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
• Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Jeremy Irons

• Why is it that the jobs that are the most fun are the ones for which you get the rewards?

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

• The most important quality of a leader is not self-confidence, but having confidence in others.

Katherine Graham

• To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything be more fun?

Theodore Roosevelt

• Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

John Maxwell

• A good leader asks: How can I make those around me more successful?
• Discipline is the choice of achieving the things you really want by doing the things you don’t really want to do.

Kevin Wiggen, Co-Founder Xythos

• Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you give up your monopoly on fish.

Mario Andretti

• If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

Henry David Thoreau

• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it

Jimi Hendrix

• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Henry Ford

• Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.
• Failure is simply the option to begin again, this time more intelligently.
• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Yoda (‘The Empire Strikes Back’)

• Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.

Colin Powell

• There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Thomas A. Edison

• As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
• There is no substitute for hard work
• Genius is on per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration

Ed Miller

• Don’t let our successes prevent us from learning from our failures.

Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

• Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Vince Lombardi

• God chooses what we go through, we choose how we go through it. Danish proverb
• Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.

Claire Dunn

• Your brain has a mind of its own.
• It will make me feel better if you let me kick you in the balls.

Peter Coughlin IDEO

• Fail early to succeed sooner.

Ken Blanchard

• The problem with the rat race is that when you finish the race you are still a rat.
• No-one on their death bed has said I wish I had gone to the office more.
• The most important thing in life is to decide what is most important.

Calvin Coolidge

• Press on. Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; the world is full of unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.