[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Communication is the real work of leadership.[/mk_blockquote]
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Regardless of the changes in technology, the market for well-crafted messages will always have an audience.[/mk_blockquote]
Nitin Nohria
Steve Burnett, The Burnett Group
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.[/mk_blockquote]
James Thurber
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Many of the white man’s ways are past our understanding …. They put a great store upon writing; there is always paper. The white man must think that paper has some mysterious power to help them in the world. The Indian needs no writings; words that are true sink deep into his heart, where they remain. He never forgets them. On the other hand, if the white man loses his paper, he is helpless.[/mk_blockquote]
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]It is generally agreed by theoreticians and practitioners alike that the asset allocation decision is by far the most important made by the investor.[/mk_blockquote]
Four Guns, Oglala
William F. Sharpe, Nobel Prize Winner
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers but, in the end, you have to set a timetable and act.[/mk_blockquote]
Lee Iacocca, former Chairman, Chrysler
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Investment policies must be simple, forthright, and understandable to a competent stranger.[/mk_blockquote]
John Guy, How to Invest Someone Else’s Money
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good. [/mk_blockquote]
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]If I had to sum up in a word what makes a good manager, I’d say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers but, in the end, you have to set a timetable and act.[/mk_blockquote]
“Coach K” (Duke Basketball Coach Mike Krzyzewski)
Lee Iacocca, former Chairman, Chrysler
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]The smarter a man is, the more he needs God to protect him from thinking he knows everything.[/mk_blockquote]
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]If you are not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original. [/mk_blockquote]
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.[/mk_blockquote]
George Webb, Pima
Sir Ken Robinson
General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]The single most important dimension of investment policy is asset mix; particularly the ratio of fixed-income investments to equity investments.[/mk_blockquote]
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.[/mk_blockquote]
Charles D. Ellis
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]The old Indians … were interested in finding the proper moral and ethical road upon which human beings should walk. All knowledge, if it is to be useful, was directed toward that goal. [/mk_blockquote]
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]The pioneers in any movement are not generally the best people to carry that movement to a successful issue. They often have to meet such hard opposition, and get so battered and bespattered, that afterward, when people find they have to accept reform, they will accept it more easily from others.[/mk_blockquote]
Vine Deloria, Spirit & Reason
Abraham Lincoln
[mk_blockquote font_family=”none”]Leaders are great storytellers
Leaders convey a grand design [/mk_blockquote]
Tom Peters, Leadership, The Essential Series