Quotes

"Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which the know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing."

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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

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"We had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire, 1960."

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"The person you will be in 5 years is based on the books you read and the people you surround yourself with today."

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"Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

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"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."

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S. 173: Zwang von aussen führt nach den Regeln der Systemtheorie nicht zum Erfolg, nach den Gesetzen der Ethik verliert der Inhalt durch Zwang seinen Wert.

S.209: Trotz einer unübersehbar grossen Anzahl empirischer Studien konnte bis heute keine methodisch gesicherte Aussage zur Überlegenheit eines bestimmten Führungsstils getroffen werden.

Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, locking neigher to the right nor the left.

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are.

Wenn Du alles im Griff hast, bist Du nicht schnell genug.

..., dass Sprache keineswegs erfunden wurde, um Informationen zu transportieren. Sondern um Beziehungen zu pflegen und Kontakt zu halten.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Self-Education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Two basic rules of life are these: 1: change is inevitable. 2: everybody resists change. The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

At the end of the day, you bet on people, not strategies.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Ein Esel, der vor zwei gleichwertigen Heuhaufen steht, verhungert, weil er sich aufgrund der Gleichwertigkeit beider Möglichkeiten nicht entscheiden kann.

Wissen nur richtig oder falsch ist im Lichte der Perspektive, die wir gewählt haben.

Technology ist not destiny.

We cannot control the wind but we can adjust the sails.

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder he be willing to climb himself.

The Idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn't want to trade places."

Man kann sich auf etwas, was keinen Widerstand leistet, nicht stützen.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

Es gibt kaum so etwas Nutzloses, wie gerade das effizient abzuarbeiten, was eigentlich gar nicht getan werden sollte.

The very best way to predict the future is to create it.

If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

So einfach wie möglich. Aber nicht einfacher.

If we knew what we are doing we would not call it research.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Neuroleadership: Kooperation geht vor Konkurrenz.

If you don’t like something, change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.

You MEET people at their own level, just as you don't discuss philosophy with a baby learning to talk... you make NOISES at the baby.

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts, it is to teach him how to use his mind for thinking..

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.

For a successful transformation, managers must live and breathe the change they encourage.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

First they laugh at you, then fight you, then you win.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

Seit die Menschen reden können, reden sie aneinander vorbei. Das wäre nicht weiter schlimm, wenn es dabei nicht dauernd zu Missverständnissen käme.

Nothing is impossible for pure love.

Jedes ausgesprochene Wort erregt den Gegensinn.

Die Qualität der Beziehung mit dem unmittelbaren Vorgesetzten entscheidet darüber, wie lange Mitarbeitende in einem Unternehmen bleiben - und wie produktiv sie sind.

Never believe anything too much - there is always a situation where it's not true.

We will either find a way, or make one.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible.

Nichts ist so beständig wie der Wandel.

Je schneller das Motorrad, desto stabiler, desto weniger lässt es sich aufhalten. Um die Richtung zu ändern reicht ein Lenkimpuls zum richtigen Zeitpunkt: Stabiles muss gezielt aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht werden um auf der Strasse des Lebens zu bleiben!

Wissen auf Vorrat? Wer kann sich das schon leisten...

Manchmal können Worte sanft wie Schmetterlingsflügel, wie zartschmelzender Honig, wie einschmeichelnde Melodien, wie schillernde Farben, wie verführerischer Blumenduft ausgesprochen werden und dennoch fühlen sie sich an wie heftigste doch bald vergessene Hiebe an während der wohlbehütete Seelenkerns noch lange und viele Tränen weint.

New Market Requirements to Organisations: Getting down to the nitty gritty and get it done yesterday.

Cherish your own vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

This is a fundamental irony of most people's lives. They don't quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us.

1739: Wir sind nicht imstande, etwas zu denken, was einer sinnlichen Wahrnehmung entbert.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life. What you believe creates the actual fact. The greatest revolution of my generation is to discover that individuals, by changing their inner attitudes of mind, can change the out aspects of their lives.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken - (1709–84) British poet

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
(Es wäre zu wünschen, dass in einem gesunden Körper auch ein gesunder Geist stecken möge.
Lit.: Georg Büchmann: Geflügelte Worte, Ausgabe Ex Libris, 6. Auflage, Frankfurt 1991)

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Television is poisonous to creativity, you must do two things above all others; read a lot and write a lot (350 million books sold).

We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

2009: Wenn Unternehmen jüngere Mitarbeiter älteren vorziehen, erhöht dies zwar durchaus die Reaktionsbereitschaft auf Veränderungen, veringert aber die Fähigkeit zur Bewältigung von Komplexität.

Rationale Begründungen lösen höufig nur den Konflikt nach der Entscheidung.

Falls du glaubst, dass du zu klein bist, um etwas zu bewirken, dann versuche mal zu schlafen, wenn eine Mücke im Raum ist. Dalai Lama .

Der beste Führer ist der, dessen Existenz gar nicht bemerkt wird; der zweitbeste der, welcher geehrt und gepriesen wird; der nächstbeste der, den man fürchtet, und der schlechteste der, den man hasst. Wenn die Arbeit des Führers getan ist, sagen die Leute: Das haben wir selbst getan.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

When a person tells you that he is the most honest person that you will ever meet, don't walk away - run!

The secret not to lose sight of reality and remain as objective as possible lies in learning how to suspend personal interests.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it..

It always seems impossible until it's done.

2009: Nicht Personen als Wirkursachen identifizieren - sondern statt dessen fragen, welche Art von System diese Art von Ergebnis begünstigt.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

2003: Gifted leaders choose a few rules, make sure they are spread throughout the system and then step back and get out of the way of their people.

2003: Manage rules not people.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

Unser Lehrer kann die Klasse verlassen, und man wird keine Veränderung bemerken, denn die Ordnung dieses Lebens hat nicht der Lehrer geschaffen, sie ist vielmehr ein Werk der Schüler.

Es ist ein zweifelsfreier Grundsatz, dass die allgemeinen Ansichten einer Zeit immer überspitzt sind. Denn sie haben sich nur deswegen allgemein verbreitet, weil sie die Köpfe in Erstaunen versetzten.

Um grosse Dinge zu tun, braucht man kein grosses Genie zu sein, man braucht nicht über den Menschen zu stehen; man muss mit ihnen sein.

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

All we are doing is looking at the time line from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes. (1988)

We strive to decide our own fate. We act with self-reliance, trusting in our own abilities. We accept responsibility for our conduct and for maintaining and improving the skills that enable us to produce added value.

2007: Führung ist die Kunst, andere dazu zu bringen, etwas zu wollen, was nach der eigenen Überzeugung getan werden sollte.

You need to be a guardian at the gates of your perception. Be careful what information and trash you let in because you subconscious will assimilate it all.

...chance only favours the mind that is prepared.

Phaidros: Nur das gesprochene Wort und die direkte Begegnung könnten Wahrheit herausarbeiten. Oder auch aufrichtige Lehre garantieren. (Wer also will, dass etwas nachhaltig wirkt und erinnert wird, der muss in persönlichen Kontakt treten, der muss mündlich werden).

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Die wahre Entdeckung besteht nicht darin, Neuland zu finden, sondern die Dinge mit neuen Augen zu sehen.

One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.

Your philosphy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment. You already have this power to act. If you haven't been able to summon it, it's merely because you have failed toset goals that inspire you.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

It is impossible to live without failig at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

In any threat is an opportunity, if you organize and act in the right way.

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

2016 - if you don't have your smartphone with you, you may discover the world!

Wer fragt, der führt.

Noch etwas Spezielles? Etwas Unangenehmes? Ja. Im Unternehmen ist nur wichtig, was Konsequenzen hat. Was keine Konsequenzen hat, ist nicht wichtig. Es mag wünschbar sein. Aber wichtig ist es nicht.

...eine eMail sollte vorrangig dann versendet werden, wenn ein Anhang mitgesendet wird...

Wofür werde ich bezahlt? Darum:..., Für das nicht:... / Welchen Wert (er)schaffe ich? / Was ist mein Beitrag? / Was verkaufe ich meiner Firma? / Warum stehe ich auf der Gehaltsliste?

I plan to cut down on the slack time within work processes and in the shipping of parts and materials as much as possible. As the basic principle in realizing this plan, I will uphold the "just in time" approach. The guiding rule is not to have goods shipped too early or too late.

Your success in life ist determined to a large extend, by your ability to think, plan, decide, and take action.

Schlechte Gewohnheiten solle man nicht zum Fenster hinauswerfen, sondern Stufe für Stufe die Treppe hinuntertragen, wenn man sie wirklich loswerden möchte.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes, most of which have never happened.

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

We are all what we pretend to be, so, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

The most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

2007: When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.

Alle grossen Erfolge, alle gelungenen Leben. Aber ebenso das Glück, Menschen getroffen zu haben, die an dich glaubten. An irgendeinem Punkt deines Lebens brauchst Du jemanden, der dir auf die Schulter klopft und sagt: Ich glaube an dich.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

Intelligence is the cpacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point.

Until we can get the behavoiur right, mothing else is worth considering, because nothing else will work.