Some Great Quotes...About Life and Leadership

Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

George Burns

The secret to success in Hollywood is sincerity. Once you learn to fake that, the rest is easy.

Peter Drucker

Look for the future that has already happened.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Marshall Pettain (before the Battle of Verdun)

A plan is always perfect until the battle begins.

Michael Porter

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A designer knows that he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Thucydides

The strong do what they will, the weak what they must.

Richard Saul Wurman

There isn't an information explosion. There is a non-information explosion.