I’m doing some clean up in my office and found a small box with a collection of 3×5 cards upon which I had written down some “future quotes and illustrations.” So here’s a few I thought I would pass on tonight. Enjoy.
On Leadership:
“You’re only as successful as the type of leader your life produces.”
mps
“How do you know if you have the quality of leadership? You discover whether you have it or not by one fundamental element: Results.”
Ben D. Mills, Ford Motor Company, 1975
On Vision:
“I would rather attempt to do something great and fail, then attempt to do nothing and succeed!”
mps
On Vision, the effect of:
William Tennant, a presbyterian pastor burdened with the need for a trained ministry, decided to act. Along with his sons, he built a 20′ x 20′ “Log Cabin” which during its short existence graduated only 18 students. But its influence continued to grow. Within a short time similar schools were established in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. In 1746, after the closing of the Log College, the College of New Jersey was chartered and eventually became Princeton University. Four of it first twelve trustees were Log College men. One man’s vision can have far reaching consequences.
Loetscher, A Brief History of Presbyterians, (1983)
On Vulnerability:
Mork (played by Robin Williams), the alien who arrived on earth in an egg, from an episode of the 70’s MORK AND MINDY Television program, summarizing his view of humans.
“They all feel that they can’t trust each other; guess they’ll get hurt . . . too bad they don’t make football pads for the heart.”
On Writing:
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.”
W. Somerset Maugham
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