Your dreams are not meant to put you to sleep, but to alert and arouse you to your immense possibilities.— David Phillips
Every day, thousands of ideas, impulses, hunches and intuitions race through your brain. Some are pure genius. Give them the red light long enough to at least write them down.— Ralph Ford
A hunch is a creativity trying to tell you something. It’s the voice of invention calling you forward.— Frank Capra
We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilities, rather than an alternative to one.— Mary Engelbreit
The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.— Margaret E. Sangster
Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.— Robert S. Weider
A good explorer knows that looking for ideas is like prospecting for gold. If you look in the same old places as everyone else, you’ll find tapped-out veins.— Roger Von Oech
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best leaders are not interested in promoting their own ideas, but in finding the best ideas. They are not interested in having their own way, but in finding the best way.— Dan Zadra
Leadership today is less about what we know and more about what we’re willing to discover.— Diane Branson
If the future is to remain open and free, we have to have people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of worked-out systems, whether they be traditional ones from the past or blueprints of the future. — Margaret Mead
Today’s leader must have the spirit of adventure – the pioneer spirit which blazes new trails.— Mary Parker Follett
Every company needs torchbearers. These are the people who embrace new ideas and champion the charge to have them implemented. — Rob Gilbert
Pioneers are special people. ‘First’ is always difficult. We don’t know that things can be done, that dreams can be fulfilled, that great accomplishments can be realized until somebody takes that first step.— Geraldine Neckiman
A frontier is never just a place; it is a time and a way of life. Frontiers pass, but they endure in their people. — Hal Borland
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality, the opening of new frontiers.— Arthur Koestler
Bring in lots of crazy-sounding ideas and entertain them royally. One of them may be king.— Craig Dunn
Write down one idea every day. In six months you’ll have more ideas than most people have in a lifetime.— Breakthrough Strategies
Ideas are like little fish. Throw thousands out in the water. Only a handful will survive, but that is enough.— Unknown
The entrepreneur finds a need and fills it; the innovator anticipates or creates a need and fills it.— Denis Waitley
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.— George Bernard Shaw
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our lives.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.
— Alice Walker
Just think of something that would be wonderful if it were only possible – and then set out to make it possible.
— Armand Hammer
To be human is to be creative. You don’t have to go outside yourself to find creativity – you already have it. It lives in your heart and mind in every moment of every day.
— Sandra Magasandra
The common gift of humanity is that we are all hard-wired to solve problems by creating new solutions.
— John P. Kotter
The future is made in the present. What will you do today that will matter tomorrow?
— Ralph Marston
Your brain is not a museum for the past, or a lumber room for the present; it is a laboratory for the future.
— John Frederick Fuller
The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
— Goethe
Start with the end in mind. Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. We aren’t stuck with the present.
— David Schwartz
Believe in your ability to visualize and create the future. That’s what leaders do. That is our job
— Mark Miller
The future is not some place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made.
— Jane Garvey
For the first time in all time, a living creature understands its origin and can undertake to design its future.
— Robert Sinsheimer
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
— Charles F. Kettering
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and change, and achievement.
— Alan Cohen
The passion to change and innovate will continue to distinguish a market leader from a follower.
— Steve Jobs
Change before you have to. Willingness to adapt and change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
— Jack Welch
The true innovator welcomes new ideas. He or she is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his/her thinking.
— A.J. Cropley
Businessmen go down with their business because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change.
— Henry Ford
Not all organizations adapt equally well to the environment within they grow. Many, like the dinosaur, remain unchanged in a changing world.
— Charles Handy
We are living in a time of unprecedented change. Companies that resist change will lose; companies that embrace change will thrive.
— Mark David
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
— Charles Darwin
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
— Ralph Nader
Perform one exceptional act of customer courtesy each day. Multiply it by everyone in your organization. Such is the stuff of revolutions.
— Tom Peters
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
— Belva Davis
Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again.
— Walt Disney
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
— Golda Meir
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
— Alice Walker
Set your organization up for success by lighting the path with a crystal-clear Vision, Mission and Core Values, and a strategic action plan.
— Mark David
Ultimately there can be no success or happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do
— Freya Stark
Part of true success, whether it’s in life or in business, is understanding there’s something bigger and more important than ourselves.
—Marcia Ann Gillespie
Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, “Why am I doing this?” It comes down to passion.
— Lyn St. James
It may be in fact utterly impossible to be successful without helping others be successful.
— Maya Angelou
Spend one-on-one time with each team member. Validate their value. Inspire their true potential.
— Mark David
The clearer you communicate your values, the easier it is to attract the right people to your organization.
— Dennis Goin
People want to make a difference and be respected for their contributions. Is that a surprise?
— Paul Ames
Regret over yesterday and anxiety about tomorrow are the twin thieves that rob you of your brilliance. Focus on the one moment over which you have complete control—now.
— Mark David
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams