• "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams
  • "The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."Edwin H. Land
  • "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." Ken Blanchard
  • "The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."Lawrence Miller
  • "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." Hal Borland
  • "Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." John Maxwell
  • "The best vision is insight." Malcolm S. Forbes
  • "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." Henry Ford
  • "Make the workmanship surpass the materials." Ovid
  • "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."John Scully
  • "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." Peter F. Drucker
  • "In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles." David Ben-Gurion
  • "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't." Peter Drucker
  • "Hire character. Train skill." Peter Schutz
  • "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." Henry David Thoreau
  • " Vision without execution is hallucination." Thomas Edison
  • "You can dream it, you can do it." Walt Disney
  • "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
  • "Catch someone doing something right." Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
  • "Never invest in a business you cannot understand." Warren Buffett
  • "Control your destiny or someone else will." Jack Welch
  • "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart." Thomas Watson, Sr.
  • "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." Warren Buffett
  • "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."Warren Bennis
  • "The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces." Thomas Aquinas
  • "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Walt Disney
  • "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader
  • "Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."Jonathan Swift
  • When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser
  • "Big thinking precedes great achievement." Wilferd Peterson
  • "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo
  • "Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."James Russell Lowell
  • "Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future." James Bertrand
  • "Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -only in constant improvement and constant change." Tom Peters
  • "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." Andrew Carnegie
  • "Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
  • "Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." Pat Riley
  • "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do." Anthony T. Dadovano
  • "You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways."M. Minsky
  • "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet." Henry Mintzberg
  • "To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind." Seneca
  • "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." Ralph Marston
  • "The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato
  • "The empires of the future are empires of the mind." Winston Churchill
  • "Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it." George Lucas
  • "Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish." Marcus Aurelius
  • "Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich." Robert H. Johnson
  • "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth." Pearl S. Buck
  • "The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers." John Egan
  • "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau
  • "When all think alike, then no one is thinking." Walter Lippman
  • "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." Dr. Linus Pauling
  • "There's a way to do it better - find it."Thomas Edison
Minding the Gap™ is a trademark of BEIED. This mission reflects the British Train Conductor's "Mind the Gap!" call -- the traditional cautionary warning to passengers as they traverse the gap between the station platform and the proper train to transport them to their intended destination. BEIED provides the platform and the pathway to enable managers to step from their current performance level to reach their goals by elevating their competencies.
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