Quotes from Hans Finzel

Rules are made to be broken, principles are not. The best fighter pilot can change the rules of engagement, but he dare not violate the principles of gravity!

And if I perish, I perish

Humility is the key to finishing well and passing the torch on to our successors.

Leadership is seeing the consequences of our actions further in the future than those around us can.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it." —Theodore Roosevelt

Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped, to deal with a world that no longer exists.

I looked for a man among them who would … stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none" (Ezek. 22:30).

Like love, leadership continued to be something everyone knew existed but nobody could define.

Effective leaders see themselves at the bottom of an inverted pyramid.

Delegation is about private ownership of one's work, and in the communist system, there simply was no private ownership.

leaders lead as they were led.

The Bible is like no other book for the Christian, yet it is sometimes the least read. We read every popular book that promises to lift up our Christian life, but forget the true source that God left for each of us.

Servant leadership is about caring for others more than for ourselves. It is about compassion for everyone who serves the group. It enriches everyone, not just those at the top. Servant leadership requires us to sit and weep with those who weep within our organizations. It requires getting down and dirty when hard work has to be done. There is nothing in my organization that anyone does that I should not be willing to do myself if it promotes the good of us all.

I can't think of anyone in biblical history—or the entire history of the human race, for that matter—who had a more difficult leadership challenge than Moses.

Big Idea: Where there is no vision, the people don't follow. It is as simple as that. Vision for a better future, conveyed with genuine passion, is the great motivator.

Laura Ingalls Wilder. She published the first book in the Little House on the Prairie series at age sixty-five.