Quote of the Day -- Richard Edelman

In this period of information bankruptcy and instability, business has to be a primary source of objective facts, a catalyst for change and a standard-bearer for universal values.

-- Richard Edelman

Quote of the Day -- Mwai Kibaki

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

-- Mwai Kibaki

Quote of the Day -- Tim Cook

Technology does not need vast troves of personal data, stitched together across dozens of websites and apps, in order to succeed. Advertising existed and thrived for decades without it. And we're here today because the path of least resistance is rarely the path of wisdom.

If a business is built on misleading users, on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve our praise. It deserves reform...

At a moment of rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms, we can no longer turn a blind eye to a theory of technology that says all engagement is good engagement — the longer the better — and all with the goal of collecting as much data as possible...

It is long past time to stop pretending that this approach doesn't come with a cost — of polarization, of lost trust and, yes, of violence.

A social dilemma cannot be allowed to become a social catastrophe.

-- Tim Cook

Quote of the Day -- Anne O'Hare McCormick

Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.

-- Anne O'Hare McCormick

Quote of the Day -- George Patton

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

 -- George Patton

Quote of the Day -- Desmond Tutu

Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.

 -- Desmond Tutu

Quote of the Day -- Louis Brandeis

If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.

 -- Louis Brandeis

Quote of the Day -- Margaret Chase Smith

It is high time that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and started thinking patriotically as Americans about national security based on individual freedoms. It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life. 

-- Margaret Chase Smith

Quote of the Day -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. 

-- Ruth Bader Ginbsurg

 1933 - 2020 RIP

Quote of the Day -- Kenichi Ohmae

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. 

-- Kenichi Ohmae

Quote of the Day -- John F. Kennedy

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters — one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. 

-- John F. Kennedy

Quote of the Day -- James Mattis

Trust is the coin of the realm for creating the harmony, speed, and teamwork to achieve success at the lowest cost.

 -- James Mattis

Quote of the Day -- Dwight Eisenhower

A people that values its privileges above its principles [will] soon lose both. 

-- Dwight Eisenhower

Quote of the Day -- Malcolm Gladwell

"...overconfidence is a disease of experts” and “incompetence is a disease of idiots,” he says. And while Idiots “don’t get that far in the world,” experts “rise to positions of leadership.”Overconfident leaders often “have an estimation of their abilities that is greater than their actual abilities. That’s a very serious problem and that leads to mistakes every bit as consequential, if not more consequential than the mistakes of incompetence.  

-- Malcolm Gladwell

Quote of the Day -- John Lewis

Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

 – John Lewis

Quote of the Day -- Doris Kearns Goodwin

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

-- Doris Kearns Goodwin

Quote of the Day -- Dalai Lama

The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds.

-- Dalai Lama

Quote of the Day -- Simon Sinek

Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire already motivated people and inspire them. People are either motivated or they are not. Unless you give motivated people something to believe in, something bigger than their job to work toward, they will motivate themselves to find a new job and you’ll be stuck with whoever’s left. 

-- Simon Sinek

Quote of the Day -- Franklin Roosevelt

Out of every crisis, every tribulation, every disaster, mankind rises with some share of greater knowledge, of higher decency, of purer purpose…. I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.

 -- Franklin Roosevelt

Quote of the Day -- Plato via Anja Steinbauer

In Book 8 of the Republic, Plato describes how a democracy is unlikely to be a stable political solution, since it offers freedom but neglects the demands of proper statecraft. Plato therefore predicts an almost certain collapse of democracy and decline into tyranny, a total loss of freedom. Why does democracy involve a neglect of statecraft? Plato argues that in a system where political power (‘cratos’) lies in the hands of the people (‘demos’) it is not guaranteed, in fact is unlikely, that those best equipped to rule will get a chance to manage public affairs. Instead the loudest voices will dominate, irrational, ill-motivated decisions will be made and the complex arena of politics which is in need of careful ordering and management will turn into a crazy circus.