Quotes

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Agha Hasan Abedi

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Instead of giving myself reasons why I can’t, I give myself reasons why I can.

Anonymous

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Aristotle

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

I forget what I hear; I remember what I see; I know what I do.

Chinese Proverb

Variety may be the spice of life, but consistency pays the bills.

Doug Cooper

If you don’t feel failure, you won’t know how to succeed.

Dwyane Wade

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.  Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

Ethel Barrett

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The cause of most of man’s unhappiness is sacrificing what he wants most for what he wants now.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement.  If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it.  If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it.  If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.

H. James Harrington

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not the multiplicity and confusion, of things.

Isaac Newton

We have a Chevrolet healthcare system by international comparative standards, but the Canadian public thinks we have a Cadillac.

Jeffrey Simpson

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Lee Iacocca

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm S. Forbes

Life itself is but what you deem it.

Marcus Aurelius

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of conflict and controversy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing of value comes without being earned.  That’s why great leaders are those who lead by example first.  You can’t demand respect because of a title or a position and expect people to follow.  That might work for a little while, but in the long run people respond to what they see.

Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion

Michael Jordan

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Mohandas Gandhi

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Plan for what is difficult while it is easy; do what is great while it is small.

Sun Tzu

Exogenous disturbances are seen at most as triggers of system behaviour; the causes are contained within the structure of the system itself.

System Dynamics Society

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

Vince Lombardi

If you hear a voice within you say, “You cannot paint”, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent van Gogh

I don’t work to collect money.

Live your life by an inner scorecard. Hang out with people who are better than you.

It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.

Stick within your circle of competence.

Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks do.

Warren Buffett

There are only two things that prevent you from accomplishing your goals — fear and self-doubt.  When you learn to trust yourself and ask for help, the world gets a whole lot easier.

Wyatt Webb