15 minute presentation of quotes from Ned Herrmann\'s Whole Brain Business Book. You\'ll have to go to the first slide custom animation to select the music you\'d like to apply and the last slide to personalize the presentation for yourself. Enjoy!

1. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous amounts of energy merely to be normal Albert Camus

2. One is not born a genius; one becomes a genius Simone de Beauvoir

3. To different minds, the same world is hell, and a heaven Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life Confucious

5. To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work Sister Mary Lauretta

6. No one who learns to know himself remains just what he was before Thomas Mann

7. Nothing about ourselves can be changed until it is first accepted Sheldon Kopp

8. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them George Bernard Shaw

9. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves Carl Jung

10. We shall not perish as a people even if we get our money supply wrong – but if we get our human relationships wrong, we shall destroy ourselves Reverend Robert Runcie Archbishop of Canterbury

11. In terms of game theory, we might say the universe is constituted as to maximize the play George Leonard

12. Most of us assume that we are seeing the world the way that it really is Ned Herrmann

13. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, then what is the significance of a clean desk? Tom Wolfe

14. Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike Madame de Stael

15. The manager of the future will simply be a learning guide Peter Drucker

16. Making unseen business issues visible is like discovering that stars also shine in the day time Ned Herrmann

17. Marketing is simply sales with a college degree Anonymous

18. Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; Unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus, all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men George Bernard Shaw

19. The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless Jean Jacques Rousseau

20. So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult to work Peter Drucker

21. Power is given to you by others. It is not yours; it is in trust with you and it is a great responsibility. Power is to be used for the benefit of those whose trustee you are Mahatma Gandhi

22. The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their characters. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it – and companies cannot grow without innovation David Ogilvy

23. Every step we take – no matter how small – to understand the needs of the people we strive to serve will increase our bond with them and move us in the direction of a higher standard of leadership Mahatma Gandhi

24. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders – people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead Jack Welch

25. The man who always knows how, will always have a job. The man who knows why will always be his boss Ralph Waldo Emerson

26. After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? Russell Hoban

27. 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 James Thurber

28. ‘Out of sight, out of mind,’ when translated into Russian (by computer), then back again into English, became ‘invisible maniac’ Arthur Calder-Marshall

29. No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

30. When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it H E Luccock

32. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much Walter Lippmann

33. I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow Woodrow Wilson

34. None of us is as smart as all of us Ken Blanchard

35. Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together Robert Redford

36. Progress is 95% routine teamwork. The other 5% relies on restless, inner-directed people who are willing to upset our applecart with new and better ideas Michael LeBoeuf

37. I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises – but only performance is reality Harold Geneen

38. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got Peter Francisco

39. Among the chief worries of today’s business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payrolls Anonymous

40. Every calling is great when greatly pursued Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

41. There is no traffic jam on the extra mile Anonymous

42. The man who rests on his laurels will soon become restless Eddie Snow

43. Education, learning, and changing are so closely related to problem solving that they may all be names for the same thing George Prince

44. The only limits are, as always, those of vision James Broughton

45. The reality is that we lose respect for our leaders if we do not approve of their conduct – public or private. Leaders who do not command our respect reduce the legitimacy of their leadership and lose our trust Keshavan Nair

46. When CEOs are asked how much of the knowledge in their companies is used, they typically answer, ‘About 20%.’Imagine the implications for a company if it could get that number up to 30% Charles Handy & Betty Zucker

47. I believe that crisis really tends to develop the character of an organization John Sculley

48. Everybody’s role perception tells you their assumptions about how things are supposed to operate around here. To re-engineer a company, those perceptions have to be aligned with today’s realities, not wistful memories of yesterday Charles Geschke

49. Organizations are perfectly designed for the results they get Paul Gustavson

50. The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning Ivy Baker

51. To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings Rosabeth Moss Kantor

52. Imagination is the beginning of creation. We imagine what we desire; we will what we imagine; and at last we create what we will George Bernard Shaw

53. Strategic leadership requires one other skill. It is a readiness to look personally foolish; a readiness to discuss half-baked ideas, since most fully baked ideas start out in that form; a total honesty, a readiness to admit you got it wrong Sir John Hoskyns

54. Imagination is more important than knowledge Albert Einstein

55. A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience Oliver Wendell Holmes ,Sr

56. You must be the change you wish to see in the worldThe less you see it, the more you gottabe it Mahatma Gandhi & Eddie Snow

57. Everyday the world turns upsidedown on someone who thought they were sitting on top of it Glenn Tullman

58. The things we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary source of creativity Margaret J Wheatley

59. If you want to succeed, double your failure rate Thomas Watson

60. Creativity is not a special gift of the few, but rather a common event of the many D & J Sanders

61. Everything that can be invented has been invented Charles Duell, US Patent Office Director, 1899

62. Groups with guitars are on the way out Decca Records Turning down the Beatles, 1962

63. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home Ken Olson, IBM

64. What is now proved was once only imagined William Blake

65. Humanity cannot forget its dreamers; it cannot let their ideals fade and die; it knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know James Allen

66. The future never just happened. It was created Will & Ariel Durant

67. The only frontiers that can never be conquered are the creative frontiers of the mind Anonymous

68. We may discover that creativity is a common human trait Isaac Asimov

69. Without this playing with fantasy, no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable Carl Jung

70. Creative thinking deals with shades of gray, not with blacks and whites Anonymous

71. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience Admiral Hyman Rickover

72. You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level Albert Einstein

73. The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones John Maynard Keynes

74. Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms, and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever Gail Godwin

75. An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come Victor Hugo

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