Klaus Kleinfeld > Quotes

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“Lastly, to state the obvious, your “purpose” is a very personal choice and yours alone. How do you want to lead your life and what do you aspire it to be?”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“One of Nietzsche’s most famous quotes, popularized by Viktor Frankl, on purpose and meaning is: He who has a “why” to live, can bear almost any “how.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“One day, while the Buddha was teaching, a man approached him in anger. This man had heard that the Buddha was teaching a philosophy that was contrary to the local religious customs. He began to insult the Buddha, who remained calm and silent. After the man finished his tirade, the Buddha asked him a question: “If a person offers a gift to another, but the other refuses to accept it, to whom does the gift belong?” The man replied that it would remain with the person who offered it. The Buddha then calmly said, “In the same way, I refuse to accept your anger and insults. They remain with you.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“Third, your purpose can change over time as you develop and go through various phases in your life.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“Joseph Campbell’s most famous quotes on finding one’s purpose is: Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“First, purpose is an amazingly potent motivator for humans.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“Interestingly, Seneca also discussed themes of fortune, fate, and the role of one’s own actions in shaping your destiny. The following saying is attributed to him: Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“Second, any human can follow multiple purposes at a given point in time, not just one.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life

“Fourth, purpose does not have to have a defined end state but can also be the “right journey” getting you closer to experience personal fulfillment.”
― Klaus Kleinfeld, Leading to Thrive: Mastering Strategies for Sustainable Success in Business and Life