Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

Success breeds success.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

Bitcoin's success will guarantee Bitcoin's success.

The only way you can get confidence is by winning, and unfortunately, the only way you win is by being confident.

In life, success begets success.

Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.

The condition that gives birth to a rule is not the same as the condition to which the rule gives birth.

What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else

Success makes success, like money makes money.

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

The more I dressed up, the more people reacted... the more I wanted to do it.

As you get little pockets of success, then suddenly the light bulbs go on in everyone's head, and more leaders get more confident and make more, bigger decisions, and customers respond well, and it becomes a bit of a flywheel.

When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.

If you want to have that winning feeling, it's best to keep on winning.

You get a good win, you take extra confidence into the next game and it shows in the result. You end up with a snowball effect. You are in a rhythm where everything is going well. But, if you start losing games, one thing can lead to another in a bad way and, if you begin to believe nothing is going for you, it can be dangerous.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

This is the curse of an evil deed, that it incites and must bring forth more evil.

Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.

Success attracts success and failure attracts failure because of the law of harmonious attraction.