Ken Blanchard Quotes

Vision animates, inspires, transforms purpose into action.

People respond to vision, not need.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

America is hungry for people who believe in something.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

To be a leader is to be awake and dissatisfied at all times. Leadership is action. Leadership is influence

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational.

A movement only takes form from that first act. Exploring a curiosity, or a real passion, and being motivated by a desire to solve something - that's really the best way.

If what you're doing today is moving you closer to your passion, then that's wonderful.

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

I've always found inspiration in icons that were really of purpose in their craft or calling. From Bob Marley to Maya Angelou to Malcolm X, inspiration came from seeing how committed they were to their vision and determining it themselves.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there.

To be a leader you must be able to create positive change.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Without a vision the people perish.

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.