CreativeFavourite Quotes

Leadership
Alan KayThe best way to predict the future is to invent it.
VoltaireCommon sense is not so common.
Peter ChisnallInformation is the raw material of management.
Peter DavidsonTomorrow's standards are always higher.
Tony RobbinsIf you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
ReicheldUnfortunately, most accounting systems do not measure what drives customer value.
DemosthenesSmall opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Miyamoto MusahiPerception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.
Peter DruckerThe business enterprise has two and only two basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results: all the rest are costs.
Cherokee IndiansOh Great Spirit, grant that I may never find fault with my neighbour until I have walked the trail of life in his moccasins
Rhienhold NiebuhrGive us the strength to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other
Harry TrumanLeadership is the ability to get people to do what they don't want to do, and like it
David OgilvyOur business needs a massive transfusion of talent. And talent is most likely to be found among non conformists, dissenters and rebels
David OgilvyHire the kind of people clients wouldn't have the nerve to hire
Peter SengePeople don't resist change. They resist being changed!
Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Margaret ThatcherBeing powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't
Oliver Wendell JamesGreatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sometimes sail with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor
Samuel GoldwynI don't want any yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell me the truth - even if it costs him his job
Eleanor RooseveltIt is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself
MachiavelliIt must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more uncertain of success, or more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things
A P GoutheyLoyalty is the one thing a leader cannot do without
Bill GatesSuccess is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose
Tom PetersThe best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers and best learners - They are shameless thieves
Dr David ReubenThe more potent a man becomes in the bedroom, the more potent he is in business
Aristotle OnassisThe secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows
AristotleWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act but a habit
Boris YeltsinYou can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long