“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The real consequence of emerging science and technology was not gadgets, whether hydrogen bombs or silicon chips, but radical, social change: ever-increasing diversity and complexity in the way people live and work. Which, in turn, demands radical organizational change.” – Dee W. Hock
“I would have written you a shorter letter, but I didn’t have the time.” – Blaise Pascal
“The greatest danger to people and civilization was not the hydrogen bomb or degradation of the environment, but greater and greater concentration of power and wealth in fewer and fewer hands.” – Dee W. Hock
“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.” – Winston Churchill
“The nature of our expertise became the creation and control of constants, uniformity, and efficiency, while our need has now become the understanding and coordination of variability, complexity, and effectiveness.” – Dee W. Hock
“Never speak harsh words. Let not bitter words escape they lips any time; keep them far away.” – The Holy Vedas
“The unique, variable, individual processes by which products and services had been handcrafted were abandoned in favor of vertical, hierarchical organizations which, in order to produce huge quantities of uniform products, services, knowledge, and people, centralized authority, routinized practices, enforced conformity, and amassed resources.” – Dee W. Hock
“If you can’t say anything nice about someone, don’t say anything at all. Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth.” – Socrates
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill
“Today, the present hardly exists at all, everything is change, with one incredibly important exception: There has been little loss of organizational float.”
“Health is not just being disease-free. Health is when every cell in your body is bouncing with joy.” – Sadhguru
“What happens in the mind naturally happens in the body. What happens in the body in turn happens in the mind. So, the way we are living here. our attitude, our emotion, the very basic mental state, the level of activity we are going through, how streamlined our minds are, all of these is very much a part of our health.” – Sadhguru
“Inward calm cannot be maintained unless physical strength is constantly and intelligently replenished.” – Buddha
“The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.” – Ernest Hemingway
“For performance of great mark, it needs extraordinary health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha
“Keep thy mind and body in perfect condition. They are the first requisites in achieving the desired goal.” – The Holy Vedas
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.” – Benjamin Franklin
