Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Passion for a goal doesn’t guarantee success, but without it, you can’t even begin.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A basic truth of management – if not of life – is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence isn’t optimism or pessimism, and it’s not a character attribute. It’s the expectation of a positive outcome.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Power is the ability to get things done.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair – consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes ‘winning’ possible.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Too many people let others stand in their way and don’t go back for one more try.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter