Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Margaret Heffernan - Page 2

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.

As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

We treasure what we can measure.

When we confront facts and fears, we achieve real power and unleash our capacity for change.

Silence is the language of inertia.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

I don't think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become.

There is no more powerful weapon for change than honesty.

Openness isn't the end. It's the beginning.

A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren't echo chambers.

A thinking partner who isn't an echo chamber... How many of us dare to have such collaborators?

Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up a PC revolution or any kind of paradigm shift. And while it might tell you what to aim for, it can't tell you how to get there

money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.