bennynz’s most recent Quotables

Whatever you are, be a good one.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader

"If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too."

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

And have an education system that trusts both teachers and parents, because they're both experts in what kids need.

My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.

Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. 'Leadership qualities' are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them.

“Control is not leadership; management is not leadership; leadership is leadership.”

If I learn something new I actually go to bed happy

Many leaders have been made by accident, circumstance sheer grit or will than have been made by all leadership courses put together

"The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."

The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are they reaching their potential [&] learning?

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.

At any given moment there is a high probability of low probability events

Unless someone like you.... cares a whole awful lot, ....nothing is going to get better...... It's not.

Instructions for making a speech: Be sincere; be brief; be seated.