Quotes

Rosabeth Moss-Kantor

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?

Peter Drucker

Build on people’s strengths so that you make their weaknesses irrelevant.

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.

Max Dunn

A major milestone of maturity is accepting that reasonable people can have opinions different from our own.

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.