The document contains a collection of quotes related to leadership, change, vision, teamwork, innovation and overcoming challenges. Some key themes that emerge are the importance of confronting problems rather than ignoring them, promoting a culture of creative dissatisfaction to drive excellence, and achieving more by working together than alone through collaboration and trust.

1. When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger , and the other represents opportunity . - John F. Kennedy

2. If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near . - Jack Welch

3. All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. - John Kenneth Galbraith

4. Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced . - James Baldwin

5. Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. - John F. Kennedy

6. The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organisation promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction . -Lawrence Miller

7. The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organisation promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction. - Lawrence Miller

8. Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction . - Picasso

9. Ask with urgency and passion . - Arthur James Balfour

10. Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. - Jim Rohn

11. The voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new horizons, but in seeing with new eyes . - Marcel Proust

12. The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. - John Scully

13. Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves . - Unknown

14. When all think alike, then no one is thinking . - Walter Lippman

15. Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated . - Dag Hammarskjoeld

16. He who has great power should use it lightly. - Seneca

17. The price of greatness is responsibility . - Winston Churchill

18. Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up , no matter how many times you are knocked down. - David McNally

19. Trust men and they will be true to you ; treat them greatly , and they will show themselves great . - Ralph W. Emerson

20. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much . - Helen Keller

21. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success . - Henry Ford

22. Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships . - Michael Jordan

23. It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit . - Robert Yates

24. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein

25. Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. - Marshall McLuhan

26. Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future. - James Bertrand

27. There is a way to do it better--find it. - Thomas Edison

28. Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument , debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand . - General Colin Powell

29. Some men look at things the way they are and ask why ? I dream of things that are not and ask why not ? - Mark Twain

30. To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favourable wind . - Seneca

31. Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision . - Anonymous

32. We will either find a way or make one. - Hannibal

33. Everything should be made as simple as possible , but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

34. 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

35. In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart. - Sigmund Freud

36. A leader is a dealer in hope . - Napoleon Bonaparte

37. We must become the change we want to see. - Mahatma Gandhi

38. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions - Albert Einstein

39. The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do . - Andrew Carnegie

40. Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer - Peter Drucker

41. If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it . It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission. - Admiral Grace Hopper

42. I never worry about action, only inaction . - Winston Churchill

43. Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done - Peter Drucker

44. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity - George Patton

45. Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison

46. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy . - Martin Luther King, Jr.

47. Slaying sacred cows makes great steaks . - Dick Nicolose

48. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

49. Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results, is the definition of crazy . - Unknown

50. A good plan implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow. - George Patton

51. The secret to getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one . - Mark Twain

52. Celebrate what you want to see more of. - Tom Peters

53. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. - Winston Churchill

54. I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward . - David Livingstone

55. Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King

56. Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas Edison

57. I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright

58. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on . - Walter Lippmann

59. He that would have fruit must climb the tree . - Thomas Fuller

60. The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff. - Roger Enrico

61. The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles