Here are some selected business quotes that can help us to stop, think, reflect and who knows, maybe even modify how we behave:
1. The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same – Carlos Castaneda
2. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change – Charles Darwin
3. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning – Bill Gates
4. Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf
5. Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford
6. The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity – Margaret J. Wheatley, Management Consultant
7. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up – Thomas Edison
8. We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations – Charles R. Swindoll, Writer
9. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong – Charles Kettering, Engineer
10. The best way to predict the future is to invent it – Alan Kay, father of the personal computer
11. People get into a rhythm that makes them resistant to change. To understand the mind-set, try switching hands when you brush your teeth in the morning – Gary Gesme, Deere & Co.
12. Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction – Joel Barker
13. Successful organizations make habits of things others don’t like to do, or don’t find time to do – Don House