Tom Rath Quotes

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done.

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.

I just want to go in with the right attitude and from Day 1 make a difference.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

In 'Birth,' I explore the nature of the new world we are approaching with my business-spiritual model, a new model for a new world. This view will enable individuals, companies and even nations to move from collapse to positive change, and bring together the spiritual and the material, giving birth to a new future.

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.

I just try to find things that either need to be done, should be done, or where I can make a difference in a significant way. And the things I've been able to participate in have been very, very exciting.

You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

Let's stop talking about crisis. Let's work instead.

At Manhattan GMAT, I had done my best to create a positive work environment and culture, and I further believed in rewarding people financially at or above the market rate for a job well done.

The more you drive positive change, the more enhanced your business model.

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

The only sane response to change is to find the opportunity in it.

There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something is observed and not fixed, or when one has a chance to give in some way and does not, there is a lie being told, the same lie we all know by heart but which needn't be reiterated.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.