Abraham Zaleznik quotes

“Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.”
-- Abraham Zaleznik

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“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”
-- Abraham Zaleznik

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“Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.”
-- Abraham Zaleznik

Source : Abraham Zaleznik (1990). “The managerial mystique: restoring leadership in business”, Harpercollins

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“If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don't have the same anxiety triggers that we have.”
-- Abraham Zaleznik

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“Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them. Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals. The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines the direction an organization takes. The net result of this influence is to change the way people think about what is desirable, possible, and necessary. In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.”
-- Abraham Zaleznik

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“Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.”
-- Abraham Zaleznik

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“Innovation grows out of membership and a sure sense of responsibility people feel for their work and the organizations that employ them.”
-- Abraham Zaleznik

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“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

“The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.”

Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us”

Source : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.

“Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.”

“Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.”

Source : 'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'

“Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.”

“Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”

“As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.”

“The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.”

“At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well have made it more rather than less democratic than many countries today - and each candidate for office competed as an individual. Only rarely did they advocate specific policies, although commenting on issues of current importance was more common. In the main voters looked more for a capable individual who once elected could do whatever the State required.”