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Quotable Quotes – I
June 17, 2008
Digging deep in my professional files a few years ago, I was able to locate a series of quotable quotes that I had collected and retained. Many of these quotes relate to leadership and business topics. Quite a few of them had been “submitted” by colleagues for inclusion in a procurement newsletter that we were publishing to our internal clients at that time.
I’ve added to that original list in recent years. The full list, organized according to the nine leadership principles that I’ve mentioned in past columns, appears in the Appendix of the book “Beat the Odds.”
Here are a few of my favorites that relate to Corporate Purpose:
"You cannot expect significant change unless you change something significant." -- Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, North Carolina
"You have to think about 'big things' while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction." -- Alvin Toffler
"Anything less than a conscious commitment to the important is an unconscious commitment to the unimportant." -- Stephen Covey
"I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be." -- Harry Lloyd
"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." -- Woodrow Wilson
Readers: If you have your own favorite on this theme, please share it with the other readers of this column.
Posted by Robert A. Rudzki on June 17, 2008 | Comments (3)
In response to: Quotable Quotes – I
Greg commented:
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.- Michel de Montaigne, philosopher The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin Disraeli, British prime minister "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations." - William Feather "I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself." - Marlene Dietrich, actress “Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.’’ - James Murray, 19th-century lexicographer of the Oxford English Dictionary "He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of the emperors." - Rudyard Kipling "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
In response to: Quotable Quotes – I
MGR commented:
One of my favorites relating to the concept of a Corporate Purpose is: "There is great work to be done. The foundations of the new world must be laid by those who have the courage to change the old; by those whose arteries are still soft and clean, whose minds are still active, and hearts still generous." - Earl Warren
In response to: Quotable Quotes – I
VP commented:
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." --- Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli (1804–1881)