Quotes About Impact

The Law of the Few says that there are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. The lesson of stickiness is the same. There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it.

A reduction of meat consumption by only 10% would result in about 12 million more tons of grain for human consumption. This additional grain could feed all of the humans across the world who starve to death each year- about 60 million people!

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

Realize that you won't be able to bring the same focus to everything in the beginning. There won't be enough people or enough hours in the day. So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

It's about how to create a culture where doing well is synonymous with doing good in order to thrive in a world where a company is only as strong as the principles it adopts.

Companies, and the people who lead them, can no longer afford to separate business objectives from the social issues surrounding them. They can no longer view their mission as a set of binary choices: growing vs. giving back, making a profit vs. promoting the public good, or innovating vs. making the world a better place.

we're at a crossroads, and the actions we take from this moment forward will have a defining impact on what kind of world we leave behind for future generations.

Value of a corporation should be distributed not only to its leadership but also to the communities in which it operates and to the world

focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

So focus on the 20 percent that makes 80 percent of the difference.

Doing well by doing good is no longer just a competitive advantage. It's becoming a business imperative.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

praise does not make anything better or worse.

People out for posthumous fame forget that the Generations To Come will be the same annoying people they know now.

What injures the hive injures the bee.

2. For every action, ask: How does it affect me? Could I change my mind about it?

Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people— unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they're saying, and what they're thinking, and what they're up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.

For every action, ask: How does it affect me? Could I change my mind about it?

Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people- unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful.

4. Don't waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they're saying, and what they're thinking, and what they're up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.

Like a horse after running a race, or a bee after making honey, a good person doesn't stop and look around for applause or rewards. They go on to produce another good deed, as a vine produces more grapes in season.

What is not harmful to the city does not harm the citizen either. Whenever you imagine you have been harmed, apply this criterion: if the city is not harmed by this, then I have not been harmed either. If on the other hand harm is done to the city, you should not be angry, but demonstrate to the doer of this harm what he has failed to see himself. p42

This advice—be clear about whom you serve—appears straightforward, but it is surprising how many leaders allow their answer to be vague, imprecise, or, most damaging of all, complex.

It is a great thing to so carry yourself that when people see you coning, they will say to themselves, 'Here comes a winner! Here is a man who dominates everything he touches.