Failure, Leadership, Anxiety

Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
~ Chinese Proverb

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of
leadership.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.
Either case is a failure of leadership.
~Colin Powell

Enemies, Others, Fun

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
~ African Proverb

Those who spend their time worrying about what people think of them wouldn't worry if they knew how rarely other people think of them.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The activities that are the easiest, cheapest, and most fun to do--such as singing, playing games, reading, storytelling, and just talking and listening-are also the best for child development.
~ Professor Jerome Singer, Yale University
(...no matter how old you are ~k)

Leadership, Greed, Still Waters

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey

For greed, all nature is too little.
~ Seneca, Roman statesman and author

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
~ Malayan Proverb

Patriot, Variance, Dance

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country,
right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived
that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
~ Mark Twain

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance
is everything.
~ Jack Welch

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
~ Japanese Proverb

Quotes just for fun

May your troubles be less,
May your blessings be more,
May nothing but happiness come through your door!
~ Irish Blessing

Modest incompetence simply won't do; it's mindboggling screw-ups that
are required.
~ Warren Buffett

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants.
~ A. Whitney Brown

Truth and Influence

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.
~ Chuck Reid

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Power lasts 10 years; influence not more than a hundred.
~ Korean proverb

Bumper Sticker

Bumper sticker of the year:

If you can read this, thank a teacher. And because it's in English, thank a soldier!