Quotes by Consultants

To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.
Gary Rudz
Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.
Stephen Few
Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.
Stephen Few
Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.
Russell Green
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work-their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
Marilyn Machlowitz
Because it is less structured than work leisure time leaves workaholics at a loss for what to do. Workaholics practically climb the wall when they can't work.
Marilyn Machlowitz
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Robert R. Updegraff
The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well-being of others.
Sharon Anthony Bower
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today this hour this minute is the day the hour the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good with all of its trials and troubles and perhaps more interesting because of them.
Robert R. Updegraff
A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to exercise her own.
Russell Green
We all have 100% to deal with in our lives: 10% is important 90% unimportant. The secret to a happy productive life is to deal with the 10% and let the 90% slip.
Salli Rasberry
Everyone only goes around the track once in life and if you don't enjoy that trip it's pretty pathetic.
Gary Rogers
Happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road for then the journey is over and it is too late.
Robert R. Updegraff
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
Russell Green
Faith is the soul's adventure.
William Bridges
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
Marilyn Moats Kennedy
Workaholics are energized rather than enervated by their work - their energy paradoxically expands as it is expended.
Marilyn Machlowitz
Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.
Robert R. Updegraff
Because we often think of bias as a function of overt acts of bigotry, we can sometimes remain blind to the invisible structures, systems, and behaviors that bestow and reinforce that power and privilege on a daily basis.
Howard J. Ross
If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves
Adam Kahane
The kind of legacy you leave will only reflect the kind of life you lived.
Andrena Sawyer
Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.
Tom Rath
If what you do TODAY will define your TOMORROW, then that means the FUTURE is NOW.
Oscar Bimpong
Indecisive? Ask Yourself the Question: Does It Add Value To My Life and Makes Me Happy?
Marieke Stoop
Your volume speaks volumes. Be aware of your dynamics, your tones as well as the loudness and softness of your voice on the phone and in person.
Loren Weisman
Spaciousness gives rise to clarity. Clarity gives rise to inspired action. Inspired action gives rise to fulfilling manifestation. When watching the motion of the clouds in the sky each day is enough for your delight, the rest just flows in and through your life as effortlessly as those clouds. Just as day follows night, action follows rest. Do not be afraid to lie fallow until inspired action moves you.
Indigo Ocean
Your Purpose in life goes beyond 9-5pm and obviously beyond your pension age. Identify, pursue and nurture until it becomes a lifestyle.
Oscar Bimpong
Everyone has a purpose in life - even if yours is to go through it believing you don't have one!
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.
Stan Slap
The question is not how to get managers’ emotional commitment but why manager’s don’t give it even if they like their company.
Stan Slap
Bury My Heart is "a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.
Stan Slap
Branding is about everything.
Tom Peters
The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.
Stan Slap
There is no better way to find out the true heart, honor, and professionalism of a person, than seeing how they handle themselves and others when facing a crisis, disaster or intense level of pressure.
Loren Weisman
If you are ready to face the fears, take the steps, do the work, be more than you thought you ever could, and attack the dream, what is keeping you? Lose all the excuses and replace them with all the reasons for success. Be the change for yourself. Commit to the dream or quit. There really is no middle ground.
Loren Weisman
At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.
Idowu Koyenikan
The more detailed we made our plans, the longer our cycle times became
Donald G. Reinertsen
Essential to time-management is a change in focus, a change from being ‘busy’ to a focus on outcomes
Tony Buon
You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.
Tony Morgan
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
Stan Slap
Careful now: even a financially rewarding, intellectually stimulating work environment isn’t the same as living your own values.
Stan Slap
Values are the individual biases that allow you to decide which actions are true for you alone.
Stan Slap
Success for Managers means: I want to be in healthy relationships. I want a real connection with people I spend so much time with.
Stan Slap
Let’s get right on top of the bottom line: You must live your personal values at work.
Stan Slap
Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.
Stan Slap
When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.
Stan Slap
Leadership creates performance in people because it impacts willingness; it’s a matter of modeling, inspiring, and reinforcing.
Stan Slap
Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.
Stan Slap
To integrate one’s experiences around a coherent and enduring sense of self lies at the core of creating a user’s guide to life.
Stan Slap
Leaders are people who know exactly who they are. They know exactly where they want to go. They’re hell-bent on getting there.
Stan Slap
Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.
Stan Slap
Managers know what they want most: to be allowed to achieve success by leveraging who they are, not by compromising it.
Stan Slap
The high quality of a company’s customer experience rarely has anything to do with the high price of their product.
Stan Slap
Companies should be the best possible place to practice fulfillment, to live out values and to realize deep connectivity and purpose.
Stan Slap
The heart of a company’s performance is hardwired to the hearts of its managers.
Stan Slap
Do you think your people struggle with being true to themselves? Do their values match up with their work?
Stan Slap
Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?
Stan Slap
When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.
Stan Slap
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
Stan Slap
Here’s what you need to know most about leadership: Lead your own life first. The only thing in this world that will dependably happen from the top down is the digging of your grave.
Stan Slap