Quotes of the Week

Pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.— Frances Hesselbein

A vision without a task is but a dream,a task without a vision is drudgery,a vision and a task is the hope of the world.— 18th-century inscription from a church in Sussex, England

The effective executive makes strength productive. He knows that one cannot build on weakness. To achieve results, one has to use all the available strengths -- the strengths of associates, the strengths of the superior, and one’s own strengths. These strengths are the true opportunities. To make strength productive is the unique purpose of organization. It cannot, of course, overcome the weaknesses with which each of us is abundantly endowed. But it can make them irrelevant. Its task is to use the strength of each man as a building block for joint performance. - Peter Drucker.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged,and increased constantly, or it vanishes.- Peter Drucker.

The most serious mistakes arenot being made as a result of wrong answers.The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question..- Peter Drucker.

An overburdened, overstretched executive isthe best executive, because he or she doesn’t have the timeto meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother people.* Jack Welch

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!Live the life you’ve imagined!As you simplify your life, the laws of the Universe will be simpler,solitude will not be solitude,poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.* Henry David Thorea

The only real security that a man can have in this world isa reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.* Henry Ford

Life is divided into three terms -that which was, which is, and which will be.Let us learn from the past to profit by the present,and from the present to live better in the future.* William Wordsworth

One of the main barriers to turning knowledgeinto action is the tendency to treat talking aboutsomething as equivalent to doing something about it.* Jeffery Pfeffer, Robert Sutton

You become a star not because of your title; you becomea star because you are adding star value to the company.* N. R. Narayana Murthy

There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way,and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.* Christopher Morley

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.* Peter Ferdinand Drucker

The elephant passing through the market-place is always beset by curs,but he cares not. He goes straight on his own way. So it is always,when a great soul appears there will be numbers to bark after him.* Tulasidas

We learn…10%… of what we read20%… of what we hear30%… of what we see50%… of what we see and hear70%… of what we discuss with others80%… of what we experience personally95%… of what we teach others* William Glasser

We become like those with whom we associate:“A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he isreally like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.”* The Holy Bible

Love your job, but never fall in love with your companybecause you never know when the company stops loving you.* N. R. Narayana Murthy

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,but it is my chief duty to accomplishsmall tasks as if they were great and noble.* Helen Keller

Luck is a losers excuse for a winners success* Mike Lewis

When it comes to the future,there are three kinds of people:those who let it happen,those who make it happen,and those who wonder what happened.* John M. Richardson, Jr.

Half the world is composed of those who have something to say but can’t;the other half is of those who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.* Muriel Strode

Where you end up isn’t the most important thing.It’s the road you take to get there.The road you take is what you’ll lookback on and call your life.* Tim Wiley

Life is not a problem to be solvedBut a reality to be experienced.* Soren Kierkegaard

People love others not for who they are,but for how they make them feel* Irwin Federman

There are times when a man should be contentwith what he has, but never with what he is.* William George Jordan

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to buildand nobody wants to do maintenance.* Kurt Vonnegut

If your actions inspire others to dream more,learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.* John Adams

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.* Andrew Mason

You should be ambitious and achieve them.You should never start with a small aim.Your aim determines the nature of your accomplishments.If you are not ambitious enough, you shall not get enough to eat.* Subhashita

Good, better, bestNever rest till good be betterAnd better be best!* Harvey Mackay

Grief drives men to serious reflection, sharpens the understandingand softens the heart.* John Adams

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.* Percy Bysshe Shelley

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier becauseyou have lived. This is to have succeeded.* Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:What are you doing for others?* Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you know something, it is in your head.When you believe something, it is in your heart.* Gabriel A. Bankes

It is not the strongest of the species that survives,nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.* Charles Darwin

Positive attitude is like a fire:unless you continue to add fuel, it goes out.* Alexander Lockheart

If you want to conquer fear,don’t sit home and think about it.Go out and get busy.* Dale Carnegie

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, magic and power in it.Begin it now.* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.* Albert Einstein

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.* Moroccan Proverb

People who want the most approval get the least and people who needapproval the least get the most.* Wayne Dyer

Please all, and you will please none.* Aesop

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need butthe creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven’s Fifth Symphonyuntil he created it. Now we could not live without it.* Louis I. Kahn

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of theblame and a little less than his share of the credit.* John C. Maxwell

Study as if you were going to live forever;live as if you were going to die tomorrow.* Maria Mitchell

Whatever you’re ready for is ready for you.* Mark Victor Hansen

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.* Henry Ford

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.* Rumi

True wealth can not be found in your bank account.It can only be found in those you call friends.Those with whom you share your deepest feelings.And those who accept you for who you really are.* Mary Vandergrift

To live is the rarest thing in the world.Most people exist, that is all.* Oscar Wilde

Besides the noble art of getting things done,there is the noble art of leaving things undone.The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.* Lin Yutang

You may not have perfect teeth,or a nose to ever match,but if you’re smiling through your heart,that smile will be nothing less than beautiful.* Jackie Riedel

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.* Vidal Sassoon

Be nice and smile to everyone you meet.You don’t know what they are going through,and they may need that smile. And treasure it.* Christine Huppert

Be not afraid of growing slowly,be afraid only of standing still.* Chinese Proverb

Happiness cannot come from without.It must come from within.* Helen Keller

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.* The Dalai Lama

Courage is not the absence of fear,but rather the judgment that something elseis more important than fear.* Ambrose Redmoon

I had no shoes and complained,until I met a man who had no feet.* Indian Proverb

The purpose of an education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.* Malcolm S. Forbes

Opportunity is missed by most people becauseit is dressed in overalls and looks like work.* Thomas Alva Edison

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve foundWhile journeying east and west -The only folks we really woundAre those we love the best.We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.* Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Take a second look …it costs you nothing.* Chinese Proverb

You can easily judge the character of a man byhow he treats those who can do nothing for him.* James D. Miles

The adventure of life is to learn.The purpose of life is to grow.The nature of life is to change.The challenge of life is to overcome.The essence of life is to care.The opportunity of life is to serve.The secret of life is to dare.The spice of life is to befriend.The beauty of life is to give.The joy of life is to love.* William Arthur Ward

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.Small people always do that, but the really greatmake you feel that you, too, can be really great.* Mark Twain