Klaus Balkenhol quotes

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.
-- Klaus Balkenhol

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The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing.
-- Klaus Balkenhol

#Horse #Voice #Joy

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.

At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.