Leadership Keynote Quotes

#1. Man is born to dream, to be enlightened, to connect and to be fulfilled. Managers are too.

Stan Slap

#2. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.

Stan Slap

#3. America is not a country, it's a business.

Brad Pitt

#4. Leadership reveals itself in the big moments, but is forged in the small. It is the exponential and compounding product of our many incremental behaviors and actions; all of which arise out of our choices in values, beliefs & emotions. Choices all. Not a one is thrust upon us.

Christopher Babson

#5. The personal values managers reported being the most under pressure to compromise to do their jobs successfully: 1. Family 2. Integrity.

Stan Slap

#6. When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. Who can determine where one ends and the other begins?

Sun Tzu

#8. The question is not how to get managers' emotional commitment but why manager's don't give it even if they like their company.

Stan Slap

#9. Yes. Railrunner, we need to activate your ride form.

Miranda Leek

#10. Do we follow the road life's placed before us?
Or do we dare step up and forge an exceptional path.
A path fraught with struggle and sacrifice,
Yet one whose outcome places us in destiny's arms.

Christopher Babson

#11. We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

Leslie Jamison

#12. There are tides beneath every tide
And the surface of water
Holds no weight.

Steven Erikson

#13. I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

Jim Gaffigan

#14. I love being able to create something from the page and bring it to life.

Seann William Scott

#15. I played some shows, but I'm disappointed it didn't do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show - whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more.

Eleanor Friedberger

#16. The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.

Kathleen O'Neal Gear