Speaker 1

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles --Mark Twain
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Speaker 2

"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.” --— Booker T. Washington
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. --Maya Angelou
In a dark place we find ourselves and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Speaker 3

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. --John Wooden
Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack’d, and never well mended. --Benjamin Franklin
"A man with no enemies is a man with no character.” --— Paul Newman

Speaker 4

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business. --Ben Horowitz
"I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want." --— Stanley Kubrick
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 5

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. --Amelia Earhart
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. --Max DePree
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen. --Aristotle

Speaker 6

You don’t know what you can miss before you try. --Franklin Pierce
Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly. --Mahatma Gandhi
"Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything!" --— Steve Martin

Speaker 7

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure. --Amy Tan

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. --Mother Teresa

"No feeling is final.” --— Rainer Maria Rilke

Speaker 1

"Tact is for people who aren't witty enough to be sarcastic.” --— Bumper Sticker
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. --Benjamin Franklin
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

Speaker 2

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. [...] Let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things [...] not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs." --—C.S. Lewis
Admit defeat, and defeat will surely admit you into permanent custody --An Extremely Goofy Movie

Speaker 3

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
"I think I [wrote] pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.” --— Steve Martin
Nothing is more important than our friendship --Monsters, Inc.

Speaker 4

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. --Margaret Mead
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
“If you can't convince them, scare them.” --— the government

Speaker 5

Do what you feel in your heart to be right–for you’ll be criticized anyway. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. --Aristotle
Friends don't lie.

Speaker 6

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. --Arthur Ashe
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. --Ann Landers
You can't stop change any more than you can stop the suns from setting.

Speaker 7

"There will be many fire alarms in your life, but few fires.” --— Adam Carolla

Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. --Blaise Pascal

A true Friend is the best Possession. --Benjamin Franklin

Speaker 1

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head - that’s assault, not leadership. --Dwight Eisenhower
Attitudes reflect leadership, captain
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. --General George Patton

Speaker 2

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. --Bo Jackson
Never question another man’s motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Whenever things go wrong, people turn to an -ism. Fascism, Communism... Why don't they think of Americanism?” --— Lionel Barrymore in You Can't Take It With You

Speaker 3

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
"The language of film is universal.” --— Intro to Movies

Speaker 4

Keep all your eggs in one basket, but watch that basket closely.
Real strength has to do with helping others. --Fred Rogers
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. --Anne Sexton

Speaker 5

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.” --— George Bernard Shaw
Being brave doesn’t mean you go looking for trouble
“We are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.” --— Steven Soderbergh

Speaker 6

"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” --— Attributed to John Adams

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. --David Ben-Gurion

Speaker 7

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. --Abraham Lincoln

I want to be proud of this country, but when aspects of our policy don’t align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.