NOTEABLE QUOTABLE

LEADERSHIP

"The supreme quality of leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible no mater whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in office."

(Dwight David Eisenhower, 34th. US President)

"The best example of leadership, is leadership by example." (Jerry McClain) 

 

"Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning." (Warren G. Bennis) 

 

"A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best troops." (General of the Armies, John J. Pershing) 

 

"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." (Ralph Nader) 

 

"The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor,  determines the success or failure of an organization." (Fred Fledler & Martin Chemers, Improving Leadership) 

 

"The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity, it's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need." (Warren G. Bennis) 

 

"Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better." (Bill Bradley) 

 

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss...The leader works out in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives." (Theodore Roosevelt) 

 

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." (Aesop) 

 

"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it." (Clarence Darrow) 

 

INTEGRITY 

 

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 

 

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." (W. Clement Stone) 

 

"Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do." (Don Galer) 

 

"One of the truest tests of integrity is the blunt refusal to be compromised." (Chinua Achebe) 

 

"Integrity is telling myself the truth to other people." (Spencer Johnson) 

 

"This above all; to thine own self be true." (William Shakespeare) 

 

"There can be no friendship without confidence; and no confidence, without integrity." 

(W. Clement Stone) 

 

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for something you are not." (Andre Gide) 

 

"It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than a bad reputation." (Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 

 

"Never compromise yourself it is all you got." (Janis Joplin) 

 

HONESTY 

 

"Cooperation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there's no room for cheating, bullying, or exploitation; instead, you can be honest, truthful and transparent in your conduct"               (His Holiness, the 14th. Dalai Lama) And Ken Hummel's response to His Holiness tweet

 

"There can be no peace without freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of expression and respect for the views of others." (Pope Francis, Easter Sunday 2025)

 

"An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded." (Pope John Paul II) 

 

"I have read and listened to more excuses at Athol Green Co-op than anywhere else in my entire life-time." (Ken Hummel, Member, Athol Green Co-operative Homes Incorporated) 

 

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave nor took an excuse." (Florence Nightingale) 

 

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters." (Albert Einstein) 

 

"Learn what is true in order to do what is right." (Thomas Henry Huxley) 

 

"Here the ways of men part: If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you with to be a devotee of truth, then inquire." (Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 

 

"We have to put effort into being honest, truthful and compassionate towards others." (Dalai Lama) 

 

"Always do right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest." (Mark Twain) 

 

"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man." 

(Richard Whately) 

 

"Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder." (George Washington) 

 

"Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time." (Mahatma Gandhi) 

 

COMMON SENSE 

 

"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) 

 

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it is about creating yourself." (George Bernard Shaw) 

 

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers." (Voltaire) 

 

"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (Eugene Ionesco) 

 

PERSEVERANCE 

 

"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress." (Thomas Elva Edison) 

 

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." (Lena Horne) 

 

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." (Vince Lombardi) 

 

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." (Albert Einstein) 

 

"Show me a person that demonstrates Leadership, Integrity and Perseverance, and you will have a person that can accomplish many tasks." (Mr. X, Athol Green Co-op) 

 

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." 

(Jack Layton, Canadian, and former Federal NDP Leader) 

 

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." (Thomas Elva Edison) 

 

"Lobbyist are like Whores going back and forth between Political Parties trying to establish relationships with those who will support them." (Ken Hummel)  

 

JUSTICE 

 

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both." (Eleanor Roosevelt) 

 

"Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom, decency and justice."                (Robert F. Kennedy)

 

"Acceptance of injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere." (Martin Luther King Jr.) 

 

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right." (Isaac Asimov) 

 

"The lowest price is the law."  Zellers Incorporated, famous slogan) 

 

"I don't see the need for a rush to Justice, when you can first put non-profit co-op housing stakeholders on Trial in the Court of Public Opinion." (Newman GoodMoon)  

 

"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would go blind." (Kahlil Gibran) 

 

OTHER QUOTABLE 

 

"You're not aiming at perfect harmony, you're trying for community. Utopia was no community and wont ever be." (Rick Salutin, Writer) 

 

"Oy vey iz mir, I've encountered many Spineless Stakeholders acting like a schmuck, a tukas or some other part of the human anatomy in the Canadian non-profit co-op housing sector." 

(Ken Hummel) 

 

"For evil to flourish, all that is needed is for good people to do nothing." (Edmond Burke) 

 

"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone." (Robin Williams) 

 

"To be extremely self-centered, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run." (Dalai Lama) 

 

"In the middle class co-op housing society (apt complexes) in #Mumbi scams take place on a regular basis. Why look elsewhere." (Deepa Prabhu) 

 

"I used to live in Seaview; Calling them "co-op" is a stretch: we didn't get to vote on the management of it." (Bethany Horne) 

 

"On the Daily Show, John Stewart compared UN to a housing co-op with Obama "that one hardass on the co-op board who always shoots people down." (Moid Mahammed) 

 

"Hanoi-Jane Fonda is applying to our 5th Ave co-op. This will be the easiest veto I've ever cast. After all this time, vengeance is mine." (Henry Kissinger) 

 

"Some people call me a bad apple, well I may be bruised but I still taste sweet, some people call me a bad apple, But I may be the sweetest apple on the tree." (David Wilcox) 

David Wilcox and his Band perform "Bad Apple" Live: CLICK HERE

 

 

 

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Ken Hummel, Administrator, CHIE