Charles Handy

Passion is born of vague hopes.

— Charles Handy

Talent comes with an individual name tag.

— Charles Handy

The world by and large has to be reinvented.

— Charles Handy

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

— Charles Handy

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do.

— Charles Handy

The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility.

— Charles Handy

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

— Charles Handy

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

— Charles Handy

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

— Charles Handy

We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.

— Charles Handy

Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.

— Charles Handy

Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

— Charles Handy

Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training

— Charles Handy

There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its…

— Charles Handy

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the…

— Charles Handy

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for…

— Charles Handy

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or…

— Charles Handy

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light…

— Charles Handy

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought…

— Charles Handy

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does.…

— Charles Handy

Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking…

— Charles Handy

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty…

— Charles Handy

Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in…

— Charles Handy

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our…

— Charles Handy

The morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise,…

— Charles Handy

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or…

— Charles Handy

To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to…

— Charles Handy

I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated…

— Charles Handy

It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations…

— Charles Handy

Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that…

— Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

— Charles Handy

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

— Charles Handy

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

— Charles Handy

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

— Charles Handy

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

— Charles Handy

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

— Charles Handy

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms.

— Charles Handy

Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.

— Charles Handy

Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers

— Charles Handy

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

— Charles Handy