SummaryAuthorQuoteAnthea Kelsick“Certified B Corporations are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. B Corps are accelerating a global culture shift to redefine success in business and build a more inclusive and sustainable economy.Ashoka“All it takes to change the world is a person who recognizes a problem and finds a solution.”Bob Langer”What excites me is that you can use science as a tool to create things that can change the world. Everything that we’ve tried to do is make discoveries that will affect human life...we consider the impact on society. Not the money.”Brad Blanton“Tell the truth. All the time. About everything. What’s the alternative to radical honesty? Waste. Wasted time, wasted money, wasted possibilities. A wasted life” Brad Smith“Intuit’s mission, values and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work that they do is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people.”Carl Jung“We don’t become enlightened by pretending to be perfect. We become enlightened when we have the courage to acknowledge and embrace our darkness.”Cesar Chavez”History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless.”Charlie Rose“Help people find the confidence in their creativity”Charlie Rose“Life squeezes out the best of us”Daniel Pink“Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement”Dave West“Unlike in sport, scrum encourages you to be always sprinting so you can deliver working software while continuously learning and improving.”David Kelley“Not rocket science. It’s empathetic.”Ethan Kay“Good Intentions have unintended consequences”Jack Welch“Only three things matter in great business: 1) Customer satisfaction, 2) Employee Satisfaction and 3) Cash Flow. Do #1 and #2 and #3 will happen.” Jack Welch”When you’re a leader, success is all about growing others”Jackie Robinson“There’s not an American in this county free until every one of us is free”Jacqueline Novagratz“We are all each other’s destiny. For example, Basel is connected to Bruce and to me and everyone who wears clothing made with cotton made in Gulu.”Jacqueline Novagratz“My dream is to find individuals who take financial resources and convert them into changing the world in the most positive ways”Joe Fuller“Management is getting the confused, misguided, unmotivated, and misdirected to accomplish a common purpose on a regular, recurring basis. I think the ultimate intersection between leadership and management is an appreciation for what motivates and causes individuals to behave the way they do, and the ability to draw out the best of them with a purpose in mind.”John Kotter“[Leadership as] the creation of positive, non-incremental change, including the creation of a vision to guide that change—a strategy—the empowerment of people to make the vision happen despite obstacles, and the creation of a coalition of energy and momentum that can move that change forward.”John Krakfcik“Lean is Cash Efficient: Think Big, Smart Small, Grow Fast.”John Krakfcik“Learn. Refine. Repeat”John Krakfcik"Precisely specify value by specific product, identify the value stream for each product, make value flow without interruptions, let customer pull value from the producer, and pursue perfection.”Kate Rockwood“Half a dozen founders with remote workforces share their secrets for recruiting and running a staff spread across ZIP codes and countries”Larry Fink“Without a sense of purpose, no company either public or private, can achieve its full potential. It will eventually lose the licenses to operate from key stakeholders” Martin Luther King Jr.“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly” Muhammad Yunus“Once poverty is gone, we’ll need to build museums to display its horrors to future governments. They’ll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society — how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.”Nelson Mandela“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same”Patagonia“Its journey from its origin as 60% recycled polyester to our reno warehouse generated nearly 20 pounds of carbon dioxide, 24 times the weight of the finished product.”Ray Dalio“Find the smartest people that disagree with you and try to understand their perspective and/or have them stress-test your perspective”Rumi“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I’m wise, so I am changing myself”Scott Cook“For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome”Scott Cook“Innovation by Design” Tasha Eurich“80% of people are lying to themselves about lying to themselves”Vas Narashimhan“You do not have a team in support of a boss; you have a boss in support of a team”Zhang Ruimin“In the past, employees waited to hear from the boss; now, they listen to the customer”