The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

Vince Lombardi

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.

Earl Nightingale

It's the job that's never started that takes longest to finish.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams... Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

Paula Amato

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Henry van Dyke

The truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffner

The transformation to world-class quality is not possible without committed, visionary, hands-on leadership.

Steven George

Our problems arise out of doing the wrong thing righter. The more efficient you are at doing the wrong thing, the wronger you become. It is better to do the right thing wronger than the wrong thing righter. If you do the right thing wrong and correct it, you get better.

Russel Ackoff

Zo dit al waanzin is, dan zit er toch systeem in.

William Shakespeare

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Pablo Picasso

I smile and start to count on my fingers: One, people are good. Two, every conflict can be removed. Three, every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple. Four, every situation can be substantially improved; even the sky is not the limit. Five, every person can reach a full life. Six, there is always a win-win solution. Shall I continue to count?

(citaat uit Goldratt’s boek The Choice, vertaald als De Keuze)

Eliyahu Goldratt

If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

Tim Fargo

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

Muhammad Ali

Your smile is your logo, your personality is your business card, how you leave others feeling after having an experience with you becomes your trademark.

Jay Danzie

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Muhammad Ali

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Muhammad Ali

Hoe strenger ik mijn werkterrein afbaken, des te groter zal mijn vrijheid zijn en des te meer betekenis zal zij hebben. Alles wat beperkingen vermindert, zal ook de kracht verminderen. Hoe meer beperkingen je jezelf oplegt, hoe meer je jezelf bevrijdt van de ketenen die de geest beteugelen.

Igor Stravinsky

The major cause of problems are solutions.

Eric Sevareidv

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company.

Masaaki Imai

In fair weather prepare for foul.

Thomas Fuller

Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.

Propertius

What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Chip Heath

Intuition is the use of patterns they’ve already learned, whereas insight is the discovery of new patterns.

Gary Klein

Je gelooft nooit hoe moeilijk het is om licht en vrij te zijn. Mensen zijn bang dat ze dan als simpele ziel worden gezien. In werkelijkheid is het tegenovergestelde juist waar.

Jack Welch

With few there is attainment. With much there is confusion.

Lao Tzu

Als je iets wilt veranderen, zul je allereerst het gedrag dat je wilt zien duidelijk moeten definiëren. Dat is de belangrijkste stap in het hele proces. En het is verbazingwekkend hoeveel mensen hier nooit over nadenken.

Icek Ajzen

It’s the memory of what was said and felt that creates alignment, not the final piece of paper.

Thomas L. Jackson

A fool with a tool still remains a fool.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Bewaren

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Marshall McLuhan

The key behavior is to lead with respect by developing the problem-solving skills of everyone ant every level of the organization.

Jim Womack

Lean is not a process of implementation but a process of discovery!

John Shook

He that would run his company on visible figures alone will in time have neither company nor figures.

W. Edwards Deming

Unlike manager, the conductor of an orchestra doesn't tell subordinates how to play instruments, but how to play together.

Russell Ackoff

A system has properties that none of its parts have on their own. You can write, but imagine your hand cut off; can it write?

Russell Ackoff

We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

Russell Ackoff

A man-hour is something we can always count. But do not come to the conclusion that "we are short of people," or "we can't do it."

Manpower is something that is beyond measurement. Capabilities can be extended indefinitely when everyone begins to think.

Taiichi Ohno

Talenten vinden oplossingen, genieën ontdekken problemen.

Hans Krailheimer

Te veel twijfel is beter dan te veel goedgelovigheid.

Robert G. Ingersoll

We weten wat we zijn, maar we weten niet wat we worden.

William Shakespeare

Men heeft altijd tijd genoeg, als men hem goed weet te gebruiken.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Plannen betekent dat je je toekomst naar het heden toe haalt, zodat je er nu iets aan kunt doen.

Alan Lakein

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.

Tony Robbins

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

What you seek is seeking you.

Rumi

Worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Helen Keller

His fear narrowed his vision so that he couldn't see anything except what he stood to lose.

Joe Hill

If more information was the only answer to success. ... We'd all be billionaires with perfect abs ..."

Tim Ferriss