December Quote

Knowledge is NOT power!  It is the IMPLEMENTATION of knowledge that is power!

Larry Winget

November Quote

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells, Outline of History (1920)
English author, historian, & utopian (1866 - 1946)

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

Pete Seeger

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)

October Quote

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." --

Harvey McKay

Service

September Quotes

If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.

W. Edwards Deming

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

W. Edwards Deming
 

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

John A. Simone, Sr.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

Harold S. Geneen

Former ITT CEO

July Quotes

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Brian Tracy

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

                       Stephen Covey

June Quotes

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick.  If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

34th  President 1953-1961

May Quote

Managers learn in business school that relationships are either up or down, but the most important relationships today are sideways.  If there is one thing that most of the people I know in management have to learn, it is how to handle relationships when there is no authority and no orders.

 - Management guru Peter Drucker.

April Quotes

"The real measure of performance is not how you do at your best, but how you do at your worst."

Subir Chowdhury

The Ice Cream Maker

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Frank Shorter

Former Olympic Marathoner

March Quotes:

"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric."
 

Phil Crosby

"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

Vince Lombardi

February Quote:

"What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it."

Elizabeth Dole

January Quote:

When I joined the Yankees as a coach in 1976, we had some characters and Mickey Rivers was one of them.  We called him "Gozzlehead"; I don't know why except that was his nickname.  He was a hell of a lead-off hitter, that I know.  He was also sort of in his own world, but that was good, because there was a lot of craziness around the team in those days.  I remember he had this quote:

"I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them, there's no use getting upset.  And I don't get upset over the things I can control because if I can control them, there's no use getting upset."

Yogi Berra: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All   page 133