57 Quotes by Mary Parker Follett

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something...

When leadership rises to genius it has the power of transforming, of transforming experience into power. And that is what experience is for, to be made into power. The great leader creates as well as directs power.

One of the greatest values of controversy is its revealing nature. The real issues at stake come into the open and have the possibility of being reconciled.

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity.

Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to overcome inertia.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

The ignoring of differences is the most fatal mistake in politics or industry or international life: every difference that is swept up into a bigger conception feeds and enriches society; every difference which is ignored feeds on society and eventually corrupts it.

Democracy is self-creating coherence.