Quotes About Impact

Andy introduces management with this classic equation: A manager's output = the output of his organization + the output of the neighboring organizations under his influence.

High managerial productivity, I argue, depends largely on choosing to perform tasks that possess high leverage.

Are you adding real value or merely passing information along? How do you add more value? By continually looking for ways to make things truly better in your department. You are a manager. The central thought of my book is that the output of a manager is the output of his organization. In principle, every hour of your day should be spent increasing the output or the value of the output of the people whom you're responsible for.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. Consequently, once the PC brought a "10X" lower cost for a given performance, it was only a matter of time before its impact would spread through the entire computing world and transform it. This change

A manager's output = the output of his organization + the output of the neighboring organizations under his influence.

Here I'd like to introduce the concept of leverage, which is the output generated by a specific type of work activity. An activity with high leverage will generate a high level of output; an activity with low leverage, a low level of output.

You can be the subject of a strategic inflection point but you can also be the cause of one

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Real meaningful endeavours, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others.

I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.

There's not a single thing on this planet —not an organism, a sea, a river or lake, and even the weather that surrounds us, that hasn't been changed by human beings. For good or bad, we're in charge of the rate at which everything changes now.

The same words that make the horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.

You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.

as an explosion. Imagine a stick of dynamite standing in a stationary position on a table. Nothing is moving, so the total momentum of

According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

Pervasive abuse and neglect of children is a greater danger to our species than cocaine and Communism combined.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

threatens to strip the world of its

Nunca se tiene una segunda oportunidad de causar una primera impresión.

Because it would be the first proof I've ever heard of that a lack of faith has any kind of power at all.

We're not so naïve that we don't know your merchants are just outposts of your way of life. We know what follows them.

Jag fick en smäll rätt i skallen. Titta vilken bula!« »Det är sjätte gången du visar den. Den ser inte intressantare ut än första gången.«

Esa sería la primera prueba que llegase a mi conocimiento de que la incredulidad tenga alguna clase de poder.

El mundo es grande —repitió el elfo—. Eso es cierto, humano. Pero vosotros cambiasteis el mundo. Al principio lo cambiasteis a la fuerza, obrasteis con él como con todo lo que ha caído en vuestras manos. Ahora resulta que el mundo ha comenzado a adaptarse a vosotros. Se ha plegado ante vosotros. Os obedece.