Quotes by Consultants - Page 3

No trade will be made unless they want the thing more than they want their money.
Roy H. Williams
The barrier standing between you and the life you are capable of living is a lack of consistent execution. Effective execution will set you free. It is the path to accomplish the things you desire.
Brian P. Moran
She inhaled a worry. She exhaled a prayer." Mary Lou Quinlan, author
Mary Lou Quinlan
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Stan Slap
To be future strong, you will face difficult hardships. Usually, there is no absolutely right or absolutely wrong choice. The key is to be intentional: Choosing the best hardships for your best future.
Bill Jensen
Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.
Bill Jensen
Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top.
Oscar Bimpong
Passion is the fuel that drives ordinary people to achieve extraordinary results by aligning their hearts, minds, beliefs and efforts.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa
As a CIO, you are the first to step into traffic, to stand alone during a period of change before people come on board. That takes personal courage...Traditionally, in IT, we like to please. But IT is not a popularity contest; it's a reality show where we often have to deliver tough information...Being a CIO means having the courage not to cut corners to please a stakeholder and delivering the hard message that this is not a risk we're willing to take.
Martha Heller
Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.
John Stahl-Wert
Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.
Idowu Koyenikan
We are never short on opportunities to answer the call to assist the widows, support the homeless, stand up for justice and to preach Christ crucified and resurrected. That is the true calling of every believer.
Andrena Sawyer
Failure is an opportunity to rise higher than before.
Edwin Dearborn
The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing and yet give everything to their grandchildren, in the eyes of every mother holding her baby close to her heart, in the spirit of every father holding the hand of his child walking for the first time.
Dragos Bratasanu
Only the right pain gets the right gain.
Max McKeown
By digitizing a traditionally analog business model or process, we're effectively turning it into bits and atoms and enabling an infinite variety of possibilities.
Nicholas D. Evans
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
Stan Slap
Courage is making an unpopular decision and suffering through temporary discomfort because you know it will have the best long-term results.
Andrena Sawyer
Only move forward with creating a product that will be "above the bar.
Brian Lawley
Leaders devoid of crucible experiences are likely to be overly confident about their ideas, and surprisingly more susceptible to fears; this is also true of children who are overly sheltered from facing challenges and experiences that help build their character. Courageously facing our fears in the difficult times gives us both humility and real confidence.
Lee Ellis
Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.
Stan Slap
Nevertheless, the Holy Spirit brings peace to your mind and heart as you uncover and make the right choice and align yourself with professional, ethical standards.
Michael J. Marx
Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.
Oli Anderson
As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.
Max McKeown
Embrace the perpetual joy of moving perpetually forward.
Max McKeown
A Serving Leader who creates a powerful churn of productivity needs a team that can put itself at the service of others.
John Stahl-Wert
When you embrace the mystery and refuse to give in to temporary stumbling blocks, you will not receive what you think you deserve, but rather what you deeply wish in your heart, even though your mind doubts it.
Dragos Bratasanu
The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams.
Gary Patton
Having a system for thinking deeper can provide greater insight into solving everyday problems. Such a system is shared in my book, Medical Investigation 101.
Dr. Russ Hill
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Stan Slap
The CIO is that one leader who can see everything that is happening within the organization," says Victor Fetter, CIO of LPL Financial. "The CIO looks at every transaction and every customer service experience that takes place on the digital platform. With that unique perspective, the CIO understand where efficiency is happening and where it is not. The position, at its most basic level, has moved from someone who just accepted the way things were, to someone who uses that visibility to create aha moments for all leaders across the organization.
Martha Heller
The natural result of utilizing different perspectives is that people are more engaged because they feel their opinions are important.
Eunice Parisi-Carew
This is your one and only precious life. Somebody’s going to decide how it’s going to be lived and that person had better be you.
Stan Slap
In the Bible, one often confronts real antinomies (equal but opposing truths). But in life one never does and always has options in difficult situations ...however uncomfortable may be their consequences. Satisfice in the circumstances and get on with your life! ~ © gfp '42™
Gary Patton
Sharing thoughts and expressions and even actions with others, possibly many others, is becoming a normal opportunity, not just for professionals and experts but for anyone who wants it. This opportunity can work on scales and over duration that were previously unimaginable. Unlike personal or communal value, public value requires not just new opportunities for old motivations; it requires governance, which is to say ways of discouraging or preventing people from wrecking either the process or the product of the group.
Clay Shirky
The thinking that says, 'I will start building my ideal future tomorrow, or next week, or next month,' is fatally flawed. The future you are going to live is the one you are creating right now at this very moment.
Brian P. Moran
Patience is a muscle you need to exercise or you will lose it.
Gary Rudz
The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.
Oli Anderson
followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope
Tom Rath
You cannot think negative and have a positive life. Meaning you cannot sow tomato seeds and expect pepper fruits.
Oscar Bimpong
Tomorrow’s workforce is flopping the relationship lens: They see companies as vehicles to achieve their goals and dreams — vehicles that can amplify their passions, achievements and community relationships beyond what they could have done on their own or elsewhere. Companies that they will join are seen as communities that explore and resource and fund making a difference in the world in ways that align with their personal approach and values.
Bill Jensen
A great strategy meeting is a meeting of minds.
Max McKeown
Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.
Oli Anderson
Always remember: everything you do uses a portion of someone else's life.
Bill Jensen
Realize the joy there is in trying to accomplish the impossible.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
The purpose of the local church is not primarily to be one's church home or extended family, though it can be at times. And it is not to survive by obtaining more people for its support base. Its purpose is to invite people to be part of the true mission of the church. Reception into the church is only a threshold to involvement in its mission. The task of the church is not to accumulate attendees. The church is a school for developing agents of the new creation from among those who are the beneficiaries of God's grace.
Peter L. Steinke
If we learn the most by our mistakes the wise have the most failures. While the timid and unfailing will always be missing true knowledge and perspective.
Gary Rudz
A Wikipedia article is a process, not a product.
Clay Shirky
The secret to living your life to its potential is to value the important stuff above your own comfort. Therefore, the critical first step to executing well is creating and maintaining a compelling vision of the future that you want even more than you desire your own short-term comfort, and then aligning your shorter term goals and plans, with that long-term vision.
Brian P. Moran
How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Future shackled is when uncertainty is the enemy that must be beaten into submission.
Bill Jensen
If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.
Max McKeown
K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious)" ~ © gfp '42™
Gary Patton
The fate of your company is in the hands of your people. Train them well.
Roy H. Williams
The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live at all.
Dragos Bratasanu
Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert!
Gary Patton
As believers, our reaction to crisis reveals our heart toward God.
Andrena Sawyer
Remember you can only gain POWER when you are in a position of influence. A position of influence can only be achieved when a VALUE is placed on your life.
Oscar Bimpong
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.
Russell Green
You have first flown with your mind to every goal you have ever achieved.
Dr. Asoka Jinadasa