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- 1. Perspectives on Life, Leadership, and Other Important Matters Assembled by Carl L. Harshman
- 2. Twenty percent of the people will be against anything. -Robert Kennedy US Attorney General
- 3. The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided . -Casey Stengel
- 4. This taught me a lesson, but Im not sure what it is. -John McEnroe on losing to Tim Mayotte in the Ebel US Pro Indoor Championships
- 5. They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past. -John Osborn Look Back in Anger
- 6. Theres nothing Im afraid of like scared people. -Robert Frost
- 7. Youre telling us that the reason things are so bad is that they are so good, and they will get better as soon as they get worse? -John Sununu (then governor of New Hampshire) You got it. -James A. Baker (then Secretary of the Treasury)
- 8. The people who change best and fastest are the ones who have no choice. -Robert Frey Harvard Business Review
- 9. Dont forget, folks. . . the less you bet, the more you lose when you win. -advice from a stickman at the Landmark Casino, Las Vegas (now closed)
- 10. Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to. -Ashleigh Brilliant
- 11. Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
- 12. Never become irritable waiting for things to get better. If youll be patient, youll find that you can wait much faster. -Unknown
- 13. Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. -Garrison Keillor
- 14. We hire people for their skills, but the whole person shows up for work. -Chester I. Barnard
- 15. According to all major studies of mergers we have seen, failures油have much more to do with lacking the soft skills-leadership油and change management. Rarely do failures result because油hard business skills are lacking. Michael Lombardo and Robert Eichinger The Leadership Machine
- 16. In commenting on the various approaches to understanding the process of leadership as well as the traits and behaviors of leaders, Warren Bennis, leadership guru said: Never have so many labored so long to say so little.
- 17. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. -Charles Kettering
- 18. Faced with the choice between changing ones mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof. -John Kenneth Galbraith
- 19. Things will get better . . . despite our efforts to improve them. -Will Rogers
- 20. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde
- 21. More than anytime in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly . -Woody Allen
- 22. Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. -Jonathan Kozol
- 23. As youre the only one you can really change, the only one who can really use all your good advice is yourself. -John-Roger and Peter McWilliams
- 24. The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before were ready for it. -Arnold H. Glasow
- 25. Convincing yourself that a bad idea is a good idea is a bad idea. -Texas Bix Bender
- 26. Our problems are mostly behind us . . . what we have to do now is fight the solutions. -Stults Situation Report The Chicago Tribune July 11, 1975
- 27. You think you understand the situation, but what you dont understand is that the situation just changed. -Putnam Investments advertisement
- 28. The certainty of misery is better than the misery of uncertainty. -Pogo
- 29. Its a question of whether were going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. -Vice President Dan Quayle (You may want to read it again.)
- 30. The person who does not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -Francis Bacon English Philosopher
- 31. The person at the top of the mountain didnt just fall there! -Anonymous
- 32. Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity. -Sir Walter Scott
- 33. Never have we had so little time in which to do so much! -Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 34. Strategy without Leadership goes nowhere; Leadership without Strategy has nowhere to go. C. L. Harshman
- 35. A leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they dont want to do and like it. -Harry Truman
- 36. "The ship he commanded was running deeper and deeper into an enveloping fog of lies told by functionaries whose careers would be destroyed by the truth." Tom Clancy The Cardinal of the Kremlin
- 37. Like values, the search for the definitive solution to leadership problems has proved to be another endless quest for the Holy Grail in organization theory. Charles Handy
- 38. . . . the higher one is in the hierarchy, the less appropriate authoritarian behaviors become in gaining the loyalty and dedication of independent-thinking and talented people. Management Research Group Leadership Effectiveness Analysis Developing Followership
- 39. Were all in this alone. -Lily Tomlin
- 40. There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO. Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
- 41. Assembled by: Dr. Carl L Harshman www.iwaminstitute.com www.harshman.com