Quotes I Like

I have always liked a good quote. Here are some of my favorites.

 

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.