I often find great leadership wisdom in short quotes from great people. Perhaps part of their greatness is their ability to share their wisdom with so few words. Something to think about.
As I sat to write this I noticed a pile of such quotes I’ve pulled out of various things over the last few months. As I read through them I realized that they say so many important things about leadership so well that rather than create something new this morning I should just share a collection of ideas for you to cogitate about. After all, taking time to just think is an important leadership task in of itself.
“Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify.” Henry David Thoreau
“Always my soul hungered for less than it had.” T.E. Lawrence
“Redundancy is retention.” Katherine Hall Jamison
“We all are agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.” Niels Bohr
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination circles the world.” Albert Einstein
“Vision without action is a dream, action without vision is a nightmare.” Japanese proverb
“Wu wei er wu bu wei.” Laozi