Top 100 Blanchard's Quotes
#1. Dudley snatched Blanchard's plate. That lad shouting racial slurs may be offending Dr. Ashida. Please take him someplace secluded and kick the shit out of him.
James Ellroy
#2. Every day is different when I'm home, but mainly I just surf. There's no nightlife or shopping, so it's pretty mellow but really nice to come back to after a trip or an event. If you're traveling, you're all stressed out, then you get to Kauai, and nothing matters anymore.
Alana Blanchard
#3. It's unfair to be hard on yourself the first time you attempt something new. It is also unfair to expect others to meet such an unrealistic expectation.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#4. We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#5. It's only when you realize that it's not about you that you begin to lead at a higher level.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. If you catch yourself doing things right, everything in your life will improve - especially your relationships. That's because it's fun to be around people who like themselves.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#9. 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
#10. I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.
Tammy Blanchard
#11. Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.
Ken Blanchard
#12. I always look up to girls like Beyonce or Anna Kournikova. Girls who do something well but also look good. I think every girl loves to feel sexy and, sure, there's some creeps out there, but I'm putting myself out there. I guess I'm just working with what I have.
Alana Blanchard
#13. [Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
Ken Blanchard
#14. Leading people is the opposite of trying to control them; it's about gaining their trust through your integrity, developing their potential through your partnership, and motivating them through your affirmation.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#15. I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.
Alana Blanchard
#16. Asking for other's guidance helps you see what you may not be able to see. It's always important to check your ego and ask for help.
Ken Blanchard
#17. Start your day with good intentions and set yourself up for a good attitude. It's not what happens to you that matters but how you respond.
Ken Blanchard
#18. I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
Tammy Blanchard
#19. A few birds sang in the distance; everything was still. We were truly alone. This was it, no turning back now. Even if we did, it was a long walk home.
Dennis R. Blanchard
#20. The best definition of profit I've ever heard is that it is the applause you get for satisfying your customers and creating a motivating environment for your people.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#24. A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#25. Don't look at how it is. Imagine how it was... -Suzanne Blanchard-Wells
Brandy Heineman
#26. I am very sorry, Aidan, but you have been asleep - or dead, depending on your point of view - for three thousand years.
Robert Blanchard
#27. Customer service should not be a department, customer service is everyone's job.
Ken Blanchard
#28. It lifts my spirits to see the statues of mothers, working women, and female peasants. These respectful and well-maintained tributes to women make the day special for me; this art is a lasting reminder that women matter in these rural Spanish towns and that women's contributions are remembered.
Jane V. Blanchard
#29. Everyday do something in relation to everything that's important to you.
Ken Blanchard
#30. It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#31. Leadership is not about power. It's not about control; it's about helping people live according to the vision.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#32. Great rule of thumb is to never say anything behind someone's back that you wouldn't say straight to the person's face.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#33. When people don't know what's going on, it's human nature for them to imagine a version that's ten times worse than the truth!
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#34. Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part; it's the living part that everyone struggles with.
Allison Blanchard
#35. I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work, and I feel that that's so much of what's out there.
Tammy Blanchard
#36. In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
Dallas Roberts
#37. Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. It's always my place to come back and feel normal again.
Alana Blanchard
#38. Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem: There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground But holds some joy of silence or of sound, Some spirits begotten of a summer dream.
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#39. Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.
Alana Blanchard
#40. I understand Twitter much more than I understand Tumblr.
Rowan Blanchard
#41. First let's look at a model of Situational Leadership II that shows a combination development level and leadership style.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#42. But I make a decision. This will be the last time I shed a tear about my baby's gender. I will pull myself together. Throughout
Lucinda Blanchard
#43. One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.
Ken Blanchard
#44. Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts ... If life's a flower, I choose my own 'T is "love in Idleness".
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#45. Purpose has to do with one's calling - deciding what business you are in as a person.
Ken Blanchard
#46. Learning to let go, to put the team's will first, is an empowering experience that leads to the most wonderful of all experiences: being a member of a high-performing, gungho, high-five team. Remember, leadership is not all about you.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#47. 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
#48. It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.
Alana Blanchard
#50. Feedback is important to people. We all want to know how well we're doing. That's why it is essential for an effective performance review system to provide ongoing feedback.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#51. It's really hard to be a servant leader because we come into this world as a baby in a self-survival mode. Life is a journey toward service.
Ken Blanchard
#52. and although her mother and father come to church every Sunday, and give liberally to charities, their little girl is not taught to find happiness by thinking of others rather than of herself, and so that poor little self of hers often feels as much neglected as Maggie Horn ever did.
Amy Ella Blanchard
#53. The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
Tammy Blanchard
#54. 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.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#55. No one can make you serve customers well. That's because great service is a choice.
Ken Blanchard
#57. I just want to do great work: work that inspires people ... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
Tammy Blanchard
#59. 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
#60. The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Rachel Blanchard
#61. I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.
Tammy Blanchard
#63. Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards.
Jane V. Blanchard
#64. In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran.
Ken Blanchard
#65. When I first came to work her i spotted a problem that needed to be solved, but I didn't know what to do. So I called the One Minute Manager. When he answered the phone, I said, Sir, I have a problem. Befor I could get another word out, he said, Good! That's what you've been hired to solve.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#66. I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
Tammy Blanchard
#67. Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.
Ken Blanchard
#68. 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
#69. Most companies spend all their time looking for another management concept and very little time following up the one they have just taught their managers.
Ken Blanchard
#70. As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.
Ken Blanchard
#71. It's been said that if you don't toot your own horn, someone will come along and use it as a spittoon.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#72. Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.
Victor Blanchard Scheffer
#73. Real communication happens when people feel safe.
Ken Blanchard
#74. For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good fortune, perhaps on his death-bed he receives a pension and equals, it may be, for a few months, the income of a retired butler!
Samuel Laman Blanchard
#75. Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.
Ken Blanchard
#76. Some of the greatest advances happen when people are bold enough to speak their truth and listen to others speak theirs.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#77. From the air Anguilla looked narrow, flat, and scrubby, but that was only part of the picture.
Melinda Blanchard
#78. Author Kenneth Blanchard says, "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." That's what leaders do. They commit and follow through.
John C. Maxwell
#79. Effective team leaders adjust their style to provide what the group can't provide for itself.
Ken Blanchard
#80. Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
Ken Blanchard
#81. If engines of love and power drive mankind, surely the bearings would burn to a frazzle without the oil of laughter.
Smoke Blanchard
#82. The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.
Ken Blanchard
#83. Purpose can never be about achievement; it is much bigger.
Ken Blanchard
#84. Have you ever dreamt about doing something totally foolish, something so absurd that perhaps you were afraid to tell anyone except possibly those closest to you? I harbored such a secret for most of my adult life - I secretly wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail [A.T.] from Georgia to Maine.
Dennis R. Blanchard
#86. I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
Rachel Blanchard
#88. 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
#89. Anything worth doing does not have to be done perfectly - at first.
Ken Blanchard
#90. Take a minute: look at your goals, look at your performance, see if your behavior matches your goals.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#91. My Emmy is in my china closet. People don't really look at it, though.
Tammy Blanchard
#92. The only job security you have today os your commitment to continuous personal improvement.
Ken Blanchard
#93. The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
Ken Blanchard
#94. Empowerment means that people have the freedom to act. It also means that they are accountable for results.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#95. Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.
Ken Blanchard
#96. People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.
Ken Blanchard
#97. I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
Tammy Blanchard
#98. Empowerment requires a major shift in attitude. The most crucial place that this shift must occur is in the heart of every leader.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#99. Empowerment Is Something Someone Gives You. Self Leadership Is What You Do To Make It Work.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#100. If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
Ken Blanchard
