Leadership keynote Quotes

“No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference… between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.”

“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.”

“Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.”

“Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.”Heinrich Hertz’ Keynote Address at the Imperial Palace, Berlin, August, 1891”

“Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.”

“The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.”

“Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.”

“The question is not how to get managers’ emotional commitment but why manager’s don’t give it even if they like their company.”