“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

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• James C. Collins
• Good to Great

“Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.”

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• Sir Ernest Shackleton

“Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.”

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• Noel M. Tichy
• The Leadership Engine

“Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enable them to do so with energy and speed through an effective strategy. In its most basic sense, leadership is about mobilizing a group of people to jump into a better future.”

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• John P. Kotter
• Our Iceberg is Melting

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

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• Socrates
• - pronounced “so crates”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

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• Ferris Bueller
• - on his day off

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

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• Michael Jordan

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

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• General George S. Patton

“Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives, but I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment... because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived.”

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• Captain Jean-Luc Picard
• Star Trek Generations