Ken Blanchard Quotes

To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

A leader is someone whose actions have the most profound consequences on other people's lives, for better or worse, sometime forever and ever.

Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.

The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.

I never wanted to go to the Old Vic and not have it survive long after I was gone. It's not about me; it's about that theater. And the more that it's able to grow and do everything it should do without me, then I've done my job.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What impact are you making on people? What impact are you making on business?

When I look towards my future, I want to leave a legacy that runs rich.

I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth. It's not going to be, 'It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl,' but really and truly what you're going to leave on this Earth is the influence on others.

Everyone wants to be immortal. Few are. Margaret Thatcher is. Why? Because her values are timeless, eternal. Tap anyone on the shoulder anywhere in the world, and ask what Mrs Thatcher believed in, and they will tell you. They can give a clear answer to what she 'stood for.'

Men die but an idea does not.

Death can never kill an idea. Ideas are more powerful than death. Ideas outlive men and can never be destroyed.

What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

It is very difficult to capture over the centuries, the charisma of an individual.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

It is doubtful if any power he [Theodore Roosevelt] has over us through his office or through his leadership of a party is so great as this which he exercises directly through his example and character.

A legacy for me is being a piece of the soundtrack of someone's life.

I'm going to imprint myself on everything in this world.

I want to leave a mark on society.

You never quite know what you do in life that leaves a seed behind that grows into an oak tree.

People are going to forget that I won a Super Bowl, but they're never going to forget the kind of impact you had on them personally.