Quotes from Peter Koestenbaum

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.