Compiled by Lyle Sussman Ph.D.

The following quotations reflect different ways of thinking about KNOW, GROW, and OWN. Read them, ponder their wisdom and insight, smile or laugh, but most importantly apply them to you personally, your team, and your organization.

KNOW

Do I have a clear vision of the future I am striving to create, and does my team share that same view?...Lost and Found

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it...W. Somerset Maugham

There is no more powerful engine driving an organization toward excellence and long-range success than an attractive, worthwhile, achievable, achievable vision for the future, widely shared…Burt Nanus

Good enough never is…Debbie Field

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing…Theodore Roosevelt

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea…Antoine De Saint-Exupery

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?… Corinthians 14:8

You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose…Benjamin Lipson

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him…Seneca

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must do to reach it…Harold Geneen

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible…Jonathan Swift

If you dream it you can do it…Walt Disney

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images…Salvador Dali

I kept six honest serving me.
They taught me everything I knew.
Their names are What, Why, Where, When, How, and Who…Rudyard Kipling

We need more men who can dream of things that never were…John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us…Henri Matisse

GROW

Are my team members more valuable to each other, to the company, and to themselves today than they were a year ago?…Lost and Found

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being….Goethe

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?….Ronald Reagan

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece…John Ruskin

Treat every employee like an appreciating asset…Tom Peters

Catch people doing something right…The One Minute Manager

It marks a big step in a man's development when he comes to realize that other men can be called in to help him do a better job than he can do alone…Andrew Carnegie

Don't worry that employees you train will decide to leave. Worry that the ones you don't train will decide to stay…Unknown

How wonderful it is that no one need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world…Anne Frank

The Pope and a peasant know more between them than the Pope alone….Italian Proverb

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns…J. M. Clark

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on…Walter Lippman

The best thing to do behind a person's back is pat it…Anonymous

OWN

Do the people on my team perform like hired hands or as if they're partners in business with me?….Lost and Found

You may fire when ready, Gridley...Admiral George Dewey

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail…Josh Billings

Success comes before teamwork only in the dictionary…Anonymous

You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you will have to win their hearts to have them work with you…William Boetcker

E Pluribus Unum (From Many One)…Inscription on US Currency

My mistake was buying stock in the company. Now I worry about the lousy work I'm turning out…Marvin Townsend

The greatest compliment that was paid me was when someone asked what I thought and attended to my answer…Henry David Thoreau

Getting fired is nature's way of telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place …Hal Lancaster

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it…Reggie Jackson

You can lead a horse to water and make it drink; the trick is to make it thirsty…Anonymous

The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what associates have to say. It's terribly important for everyone to get involved. Our best ideas come form clerks and stock boys…Sam Walton

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately….Benjamin Franklin

The more I want to get something done the less I call it work…Richard Bach

It is better to have one person working with you than to have five people working for you….Dwight David Eisenhower

I don't start the five best players, I start the five players who play together best…Red Auerbach