"Leadership produces change. That is its primary function"

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Source : John P. Kotter (2008). “Force For Change: How Leadership Differs from Management”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

John P. Kotter

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“One thing that I learned in recent years from working more with other people is this idea that part of a producer's job is to make people comfortable and confident.”
“I don't want to pursue someone at all - I want someone to pursue me.”
“Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.”
“There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.”
“Making a movie is trying to capture moments of true reality.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Did you ever wake up with an erection...and find yourself in a massage chair at Brookstone? And you yell to the sales clerk "I'll take it!"”
“My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun.”

Source : "Jenson Button drinks in memories before joining F1's 200 club" by Giles Richards, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2011.
“The world is not there to please you. It's up to you to please the world.”

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