Philip Francis Quotes

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

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.

When the opportunity is there, you have to let your creative juices start flowing and reach and grab for it.

I want to be creative, to get on the ball, to play.

I know it's easy to imagine, But it's easier to just do, See, if you can't do what you imagine, then what is imagination to you?

It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and on the battlefield men who set their hearts on toys have often displayed unequal initiative and drive. And one must be ignorant of the creative process to look for a close correspondence between motive and achievement in the world of thought and imagination.

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Nothing in the world can be more exciting than to create something and see it work.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

I think that anything that leads to creativity and good work is good.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.