57 Quotes by Mary Parker Follett

It is not opposition but indifference which separates men.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul.

The best leader does not ask people to serve him, but the common end. The best leader has not followers, but men and women working with him.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of these two alternatives.

The insight to see possible new paths, the courage to try them, the judgment to measure results – these are the qualities of a leader.

An order then should always be given not as a personal matter, not because the man giving it wants the thing done, but because it is the demand of the situation. And an order of this kind carries weight because it is the demand of the situation.