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

Passion is born of vague hopes.

— 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

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

— Charles Handy

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

— Charles Handy

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

— Charles Handy

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

— Charles Handy

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

— Charles Handy

We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others…

— Charles Handy

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

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Charles Handy

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

— Charles Handy

Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Charles Handy

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

— Charles Handy

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

— 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

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

— 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