Quotable Quotes (Part 2)

Ed Catmull, Podcast

Companies are now realizing that they have to involve technology ..., for me, the model is that you know you are an integrated company if you can't draw a line between ...

Sir Ken Robinson, TED Talk

If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original.

Lew Cirne (New Relic), Podcast

Every business is a software business.

Simon Sinek, Start with Why

If you follow your WHY, then others will follow you.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

Fear, real or perceived, is arguably the most powerful manipulation of the lot. It's not the statistical probability that one could get hurt by a terrorist, but it's the fear that it might happen that cripples a population.

Though positive in nature, aspirational messages are most effective with those who lack discipline or have a nagging fear or insecurity that they don't have the ability to achieve their dreams on their own (which, at various times for various reasons, is everyone).

Søren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Boredom - a sense of emptiness, not an absence of stimulation but an absence of meaning. An idea that also explains why it is possible, today more than ever, to be overstimulated but existentially bored.

Peer pressure works not because the majority or the experts are always right, but because we fear that we may be wrong.

People don't buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.

Decision-making and the ability to explain those decisions exist in different parts of the brain.

When you compete against everyone else no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

US Marine Corps Leadership Manual

An individual's responsibility for leadership is not dependent on authority .... the deep-rooted assumption that authority should equal responsibility is the root of much organizational evil. I believe misunderstanding around this issue is rampant, problematic, and runs so deep in our consciousness that we don't even realize it.

Peter Drucker

Good intentions are no excuse for incompetence and lack of results.

Gregory Chaitin in Proving Darwin

Societies that suppress creativity temporarily gain increased stability, increased efficiency, but they are not flexible enough to deal with a changing environment.

Teddy Roosevelt, Citizenship in A Republic, 1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Jeff Sutherland in Scrum, 2014

No one should spend their lives on meaningless work. Not only is it not good business, it kills the soul.

In software development there is a rule, borne out by decades of research, that 80 percent of the value in any piece of software is in 20 percent of the features.

Just because everyone has always told you that's the way the world works doesn't mean they are right. There is a different way of doing things - a different way of working.

Time makes up your life, so wasting it is actually a slow form of suicide.

John Maxwell, Videocast

The difference between winners and whiners is: winners they know they have to do the right thing and then they feel good and whiners they want to feel good before they do the right thing.

Laugh at life, but be sure to laugh at yourself because someone else already is.

Thomas J. Watson

The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.

Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0

You cannot be anything you want to be-you can be a lot more of who you already are.

Anthony Robbins

Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

John C. Maxwell

Good questions inform; great questions transform.

Good leaders listen, learn, and then lead.

Bernard Baruch

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the only one who asked why.

Rick Warren

Humility is not denying your strengths. Humility is being honest about your weaknesses.

Samuel Johnson

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess.

Henry Ford

If you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Unless you do right things, right things will not happen to you.

Weston H. Igor

Intuition is what you know for sure without knowing for certain.

Joyce Brothers

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

If you tidy your house all at once, you'll rebound. It is better to make it a habit to do little at a time.

People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking.

Captain Marquet 

The goal of a leader is to give no orders. Leaders are to provide direction and intent and allow others to figure out what to do and how to get there.

Ram Charan, HBR IdeaCast

A leader who does not produce other leaders is not a great leader.

High-performance leader is different from high-performance individual. And the difference is a high-performance leader gets things done. A high-performance individual does the things in terms of himself or herself.