Ken Blanchard famous quotes

We are not just our behavior. We are the person managing our behavior.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Behavior #Persons

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Use #Action #Behavior

There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Success #Work #Commitment

Humility does not mean you think less of yourself. It means you think of yourself less.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Mean #Humility #Thinking

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Inspirational #Successful #Keys

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Perfection #Excellence

The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Leadership #People #Vision

Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Motivational #Leadership #Ambition

Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Success #Letting Go #Empowerment

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Business #Learning #Science

The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Leadership #Jobs #Commitment

Honesty is telling the truth to ourselves and others. Integrity is living that truth.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Honesty #Integrity #Telling The Truth

People don't mind being challenged to do better if they know the request is coming from a caring heart
-- Ken Blanchard

#Leadership #Heart #Caring

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Humility #Thinking #People

Before something can become a habit it must first be practiced as a discipline.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Discipline #Firsts #Habit

No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Choices #Great Service #Wells

People who feel good about themselves produce good results.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Inspirational #Morning #People

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Leadership #Power #Past

Trying is just a noisy way of not doing something.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Trying #Way

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Humility #Two #Ears

To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Learning #Play #Track

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Differences #Desire #Problem

The productivity of a work group seems to depend on how the group members see their own goals in relation to the goals of the organization.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Organization #Goal #Groups

We can't control everything in life, that's for sure, but we can reach out to the people we love to tell them we love and care about them.
-- Ken Blanchard

#People #Care #Love And Care

For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Inspiring #Leadership #Negative

All good performance starts with clear goals.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Goal #Clear #Performances

Your customers are only satisfied because their expectations are so low and because no one else is doing better. Just having satisfied customers isn't good enough anymore. If you really want a booming business, you have to create Raving Fans.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Expectations #Fans #Want

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.
-- Ken Blanchard

#People

Your game is only as good as your practice.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Practice #Games

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Learning #People #Leader

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Responsibility #Sheep #People

If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Smart #Mirrors #People

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

#Inspirational #Smart

Catch someone doing something right.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Management

The best minute you spend is the one you invest in people
-- Ken Blanchard

#People #Minutes

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Leader #Important #Our Relationship

When you touch - don't take. Touch people only when you are giving something - reassurance, support, encouragement, whatever
-- Ken Blanchard

#Encouragement #People #Giving

Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Husband #Trying #Spirit

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Jobs #Organization #People

Catching people doing things right is a powerful management concept.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Motivational #Powerful #People

Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Jobs #Should

Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Purpose #Calling #Persons

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." Ray Kroc "If some of today's leaders don't relearn the value of a smile, they'll be unable to fire up others' ability to find real enjoyment in their work.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Leadership #Real #Fire

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Winning #People #Goal

You have the power to help people become winners.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Motivational #People #Helping

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Principles #Purpose #Want

Have I done what is really important today?
-- Ken Blanchard

#Important #Done #Today

The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Prayer #Real #Reading

Unexpressed good thoughts aren't worth squat!
-- Ken Blanchard

#Squat #Good Thoughts

I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard in life, then good would come to you. The harder you work, the luckier you get. I've come to believe that it's the smarter you work, the better.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Success #Believe #Thinking

If becoming a high performing organization is the destination, leadership is the engine.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Leadership #Organization #Becoming

Leadership is anytime you seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Inspiring #Leadership #Thinking

Vision comes alive when everyone sees where his or her contribution makes a difference.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Differences #Vision #Making A Difference

Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Mean #Squat #Good Thoughts

Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Achievement #Purpose #Bigger

Take yourself seriously but take yourself lightly.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Humility

I absolutely believe in the power of tithing and giving back. My own experience about all the blessings I've had in my life is that the more I give away, the more that comes back. That is the way life works, and that is the way energy works.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Believe #Greatness #Blessing

Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Motivational #Running #Kindness

It never hurts to toot your own horn once in a while.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Hurt #Horns

Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Jobs

As a servant leader the way you serve the vision is by developing people so that they can work on that vision even when you're not around. The ultimate sin of an effective servant leader is what happens when you are not there. That was the power of Jesus' leadership-the leaders He trained went on to change the world when He was no longer with them in bodily form.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Jesus #People #Leader

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Knowing #Firsts #Steps

How many of you would put in front of your house a sign that says gun-free zone?
-- Ken Blanchard

#Gun #House #Zone

I never use notes, they interfere with me.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Use #Notes #Presentation Skills

As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there
-- Ken Blanchard

#Business #Important #Management

What we give our attention to, grows.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Giving #Attention #Grows

Things not worth doing are not worth doing well.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Wells

When you stop learning you stop growing.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Growing

Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Problem #Results #Not Afraid

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Consistency #Way

Perpetual prosperity comes to those who help others.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Helping Others #Helping #Prosperity

A river without banks is a large puddle.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Rivers #Puddles

Vision is a lot more than putting a plaque on the wall. A real vision is lived, not framed.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Wall #Real #Vision

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Journey #Knowing Who You Are #Vision

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Silence #Solitude #Too Much

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Change #World #Advantage

Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Goal #Looks #Behavior

Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Doe #Done #Firsts

Real communication happens when people feel safe.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Real #Communication #People

Help People Reach Their Full Potential Catch Them Doing Something Right
-- Ken Blanchard

#People #Full Potential #Helping

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Jesus #Facts

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Principles

Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly
-- Ken Blanchard

If you want your people to be responsible, be responsive to their needs.
-- Ken Blanchard

#People #Needs #Want

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
-- Ken Blanchard

#No Excuses #Accepting #Results

Present thinking people kill the future.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Thinking #People

Business is like tennis. Those who serve well win.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Winning #Tennis #Wells

Congratulations offer more potential than cash. The amount of available cash is limited, but managers have an unlimited supply of congratulations. It's important to pay people fairly, but managers also should heap on congratulations and feed people's souls.
-- Ken Blanchard

#Congratulations #People #Soul