“Leadership is the art of achieving more than the science of management says is possible”

Field Marshall Lord Slim 

“Leadership is not about managing things it is about developing people”

Robin Sharma

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel"

Maya Angelou

"The difference between a big shot and a little shot is a big shot's just a little shot that kept on shooting."

Zig Ziglar

"Influence is when people turn your way and listen to what you have to say."

Unknown

On Vision “The co-ordination of knowledge and effort of two or more people, who work toward a definite purpose in the spirit of harmony……No two minds ever come together without thereby creating a third, invisible intangible force. “

 Napoleon Hill

  “Why do we judge others by their behaviour and judge ourselves by our good intentions”

Anon

  “The biggest problem with the communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished”

George Bernard Shaw

"Every decision in the world is made by the person who has the power to make that decision - not the "right" person, or the "smartest" person, or the most " qualified" person, and in most cases not you. If you do not influence this person, you will not make a positive difference. Make peace with this. You will have a better life! And you will make more of a positive difference in your organization and you will be happier." 

Marshall Goldsmith

"The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more things you'll have to express gratitude for"

Zig Ziglar

"You don't have to see the whole staircase - just take the first step."

Martin Luther King

"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right."

Henry Ford

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

Sven Goran Eriksson

"Where is the wisdom that we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"

T S Elliot

"Teachers open the doors, but you must enter by yourself.”

Chinese Proverb

"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."

Brian Tracy

"Attitude is a little thing that can make a big difference"

Winston  Churchill

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Thomas Alva Edison

 "What is now proved was once only imagined"

William Blake

"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."

Edward de Bono 

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do."

Mark Twain

"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Mary Kay Ash

"The only thing I know is that I do not know it all.”

Socrates

“Perfect is good but not good enough”

Paul Merret The Geenhouse Restaurant 

 "Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

Albert Einstein

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“The complexities associated with doing business in a developing country”

Haitian developer

"Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world."

Winston Churchill 

“The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result,”  

Albert Einstein.

“Being stuck in the survival trap is a predicament most individuals, businesses and countries in the developing world face.”

Eric Kacou Rwandan National innovation and competitiveness programme Nominated by the Worlds Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader

“Leadership is the ability to function with people who are unlike oneself to achieve a goal of mutual benefit. And when I say ‘function’, it’s about being effective, whether [colleagues] have different training, cultures or mindsets.”  

Eric Kacou Rwandan National innovation and competitiveness programme Nominated by the Worlds Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader

"Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence and a customer will recognize both."

Vincent Lombardi

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it"

Albert Einstein

"The truth you believe in and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new."

Pema 

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable."

General Dwight D Eisenhower

"It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself."

Muhammad Ali

"No idea is so outlandish that it should be not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye."

Winston Churchill

"To ask the hard question is simple."

W H Auden

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Mahatma Gandhi

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

Anon

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."

Joan Didion

"If you start to take Vienna, take Vienna."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"If you are going through hell, be sure to keep going."

Winston Churchill

"What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate."

Henry David Thoreau

"There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley

"In business people don’t care about how much you know but they like to know how much you care" 

anon

"Only an amateur warms up on stage"

Warren Evans 

"Leaders must answer 2 questions: what will I take or what will I give."

Unknown 

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

Sally Field

"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee."

Lester J. Pourciau

"The trouble with market research is that people don't think how they feel, they don't say what they think and they don't do what they say."

David Ogilvy,

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."

Albert Einstein

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Victoria Holt

"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

Dale Carnegie

"In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back."

Charlie Brown

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Peter F. Drucker

"A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed."

Henrik Ibsen

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

Billie Jean King

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm"

 Winston Churchill 

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken"

Oscar Wilde 

“The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

Gary Player

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

Ray Kroc

"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

J. P. Morgan

"Life isn't measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments which take your breath away"

Unknown

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies"

Mother Teresa

"A champion is someone who gets up when he can't."

Jack Dempsey

"Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned."

Harold S. Geneen 

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Muhammad Ali

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

Wayne Gretzky 

"And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done."

Herb Brooks

"Everything goes in cycles, to a degree."

Herb Brooks

"Great moments are born from great opportunities."

Herb Brooks

"I'm a dreamer."

Herb Brooks

"If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment."

Herb Brooks
 
"Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me".

Herb Brooks

"This is your moment. You're meant to be here."

Herb Brooks

"We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams."

Herb Brooks

"You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams."

Herb Brooks

"You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country."

Herb Brooks

"You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month."

Herb Brooks

"You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself."

Zig Ziglar

"Life is the sum of all your choices"

Albert Camus 

"Do you know what my favourite part of the game is? The opportunity to play"

Mike Singletary

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success"

Charles Finley

“People always say "Motivation is great but it doesn't last." I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily."

Zig Ziglar

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"

George Bernard Shaw 

"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul"

Thomas Merton 

"Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records."

William Arthur Ward

"Leadership = stewardship of relationships."

Unknown

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them."

John C. Maxwell

"Whatever you are be a good one.”

Abraham Lincoln

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

Benjamin Franklin

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Bill Cosby

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle"

Ken Hakuta

"You will find the key to success under the alarm clock."

Benjamin Franklin

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough is being good every day."

Willie Mays