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“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
Peter F. Drucker

“Every now and then when you're on stage, you can hear the best sound that a player can hear. It is a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
Shelley Winters

“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.”
James Russell Lowell

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself and never overestimate your power to change others.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Too many are concerned with avoiding sinking the boat, when they should be concerned about missing it”
Unknown

“If you can keep your head when everyone around you is panicking…. It’s a sure sign that that you have not understood the seriousness of the situation”
David Brett (from the TV series “The Office”)

“My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”
Boris Johnson (Mayor of London 2008)

“Performance = potential minus interference”
Anon

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail”
John Wooden

“The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year”
John Foster Dulles

“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.”
Brendan Francis

“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Albert Einstein

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
Coco Chanel

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
Stephen Covey

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.”
Douglas Adams

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill

“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”
Warren Bennis

“A meeting is an event in which minutes are kept and hours are lost.”
Anon

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley

“When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.”
Bernard Bailey

“The companies that survive longest are the ones that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.”
Charles Handy

“It's a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it”
W. Somerset Maugham

“That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”
Chinese Proverb

“If you think safety is expensive, try an accident.”
Stelios (EasyJet)

“A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.”
Grace Hopper

“If you're too busy to learn, you won't be busy for very long.”
Anon

“There are three types of company today: Those who make things happen..those who watch things happen..and those who wonder what has happened.”
Peter Drucker

“It is only when the tide goes out that you see who was swimming without shorts.”
Warren Buffet

“Knowledge is power, wisdom is bliss and information is useful for those of us who possess little of the first two”
Anon

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

“The most expensive time in a manager's life is the time between when you truly lose faith in someone and when you do something about it.”
Unknown

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.”
John F. Kennedy

“Self-trust is the first secret of success"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were. Be candid with everyone. Don't manage, lead. Change before you have to. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete. Control your own destiny, or someone else.”
Jack Welch

“The only way you can coast is downhill!”
Unknown

“Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.”
Unknown

“Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.”
Warren Bennis & Burt Nanus

“Calling yourself a professional no more makes you a professional than sitting in your garage makes you a car.”
Bob Weber

“There is only one boss. The customer, and he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman down simply be spending his money somewhere else.”
Sam Walton

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