Hans Finzel > Quotes

“A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“Rules are made to be broken, principles are not. The best fighter pilot can change the rules of engagement, but he dare not violate the principles of gravity!”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“Laura Ingalls Wilder. She published the first book in the Little House on the Prairie series at age sixty-five.”
― Hans Finzel, Launch Your Encore: Finding Adventure and Purpose Later in Life

“Delegation is about private ownership of one’s work, and in the communist system, there simply was no private ownership.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“leaders lead as they were led.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“Big Idea: Where there is no vision, the people don’t follow. It is as simple as that. Vision for a better future, conveyed with genuine passion, is the great motivator.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Leadership Commandments

“But I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. So I’ll take getting older,” says George Clooney.3 That fact being obvious, we want to add that we believe that growing old can be dangerous. The trail is treacherous and the pitfalls are many. One is wise to be prepared. We know it’s coming. It’s not like God kept the aging process a secret from all of us. It’s not like we are blazing a new trail that no one has traveled before.”
― Hans Finzel, Launch Your Encore: Finding Adventure and Purpose Later in Life

“Like love, leadership continued to be something everyone knew existed but nobody could define.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“Leadership is seeing the consequences of our actions further in the future than those around us can.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“I looked for a man among them who would … stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none” (Ezek. 22:30).”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“I can’t think of anyone in biblical history—or the entire history of the human race, for that matter—who had a more difficult leadership challenge than Moses.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Leadership Commandments

“Effective leaders see themselves at the bottom of an inverted pyramid.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” —Theodore Roosevelt”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“And if I perish, I perish”
― Hans Finzel, Empowered Leaders

“Humility is the key to finishing well and passing the torch on to our successors.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“Information is giving out; communication is getting through.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“The Bible is like no other book for the Christian, yet it is sometimes the least read. We read every popular book that promises to lift up our Christian life, but forget the true source that God left for each of us.”
― Hans Finzel, Unlocking the Scriptures

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped, to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“Servant leadership is about caring for others more than for ourselves. It is about compassion for everyone who serves the group. It enriches everyone, not just those at the top. Servant leadership requires us to sit and weep with those who weep within our organizations. It requires getting down and dirty when hard work has to be done. There is nothing in my organization that anyone does that I should not be willing to do myself if it promotes the good of us all.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make

“The Royal Bank Letter, a Canadian publication, made this observation: A prophetic expert on the subject of tyranny through ignorance, Adolf Hitler, wrote inMein Kampf that propaganda, to be effective, must operate on the level of the “most stupid” members of society. Hitler, who loathed universal education, knew that ignorance goes hand-in-hand with gullibility. He realized that he could best “work his wicked will,” as Winston Churchill put it, when his audience was kept in the dark.”
― Hans Finzel, The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make