"The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes."
- Jeroen Van Der Veer, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."
- C.W. Ceram
"Dr. Albert Einstein and Coach John Wooden share a similar brilliance; specifically, both mastered the complicated art of keeping it simple."
- Steve Jamison, Co-Author, WOODEN ON LEADERSHIP
"Simplicity - the art of making the complex clear - can give us the power to get stuff done. Power to work smarter. It's a prerequisite if we want to leverage the untapped energy, innovation, creativity, and ideas that already exist in our organizations."
- Bill Jensen, SIMPLICITY - THE NEW COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
- Henry David Thoreau
"The key to being successful is simple."
- Charles Capps - SUCCESS MOTIVATION THROUGH THE WORD
"The authors demonstrate conclusively that the proven principles of management and leadership are absolute and, in fact, simple."
- Frederick W. Smith, Foreword - SIMPLE SOLUTIONS
"Think this sounds easy? Think again. It sounds simple, and it is simple - but simple is never easy. What's easy is to be so complex, and obtuse, and ambivalent, that nobody even bothers to challenge you."
- Richard Marcinko - LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF THE ROUGE WARRIOR
"The beauty and power of the research findings is that they can radically simplify our lives while increasing our effectiveness. There is great solace in the simple fact of clarity - about what is vital and what is not."
- Jim Collins - GOOD TO GREAT
"Simplicity gives us the power to do less of what doesn't matter, and gives us the power to do more of what does matter."
- John Bogle
"The paradox of our times is that as things become increasingly complex, the more we need simplicity."
- Dr Michael LeBoeuf,PhD, THE PERFECT BUSINESS
"The simplest ideas are the most powerful."
- Dr. Joseph Murphy, THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONCIUOS MIND
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius
"For many years now, you and I have been...told there are no simple answers to the complex questions which are beyond our comprehension. Well, the truth is, there are simple answers - there are just not easy ones."
- President Ronald Reagan
"It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
- Aristotle
"If there is a spark of genius in the leadership function at all, it must lie in this transcending ability, a kind of magic, to assemble - out of all the variety of images, signals, forecasts and alternatives - a clearly articulated vision of the future that is at once simple, easily understood, clearly desirable, and energizing."
- Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus - LEADERS
"Simplicity is the peak of civilization."
- Jessie Sampter
"The power of simplicity in a vision has been demonstrated repeatedly throughout history. Simplicity ensures that a vision can be remembered by listeners and passed along to others, almost effortlessly."
- James M. Strock - REAGAN ON LEADERSHIP
"Great managers make it all seem so simple."
- Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman- FIRST BREAK ALL THE RULES
"...if we don't look for ways to simplify, we can guarantee our lives will become more complex, more busy, less efficient and more stressful."
- David Brewster - SUCCESS WITH SIMPLICITY