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

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.

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

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

Leaders adopt a personal and active attitude toward goals.

In other words, leaders are visionaries and managers operate within those established visions.

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.

The influence a leader exerts in altering moods, evoking images and expectations, and in establishing specific desires and objectives determines

Leaders are active instead of reactive, shaping ideas instead of responding to them.

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.

Leadership requires using power to influence the thoughts and actions of other people.

The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.

In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.