9 Quotes by Peter Koestenbaum

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can’t make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

Reflection doesn’t take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action – to be a leader.

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

To be a leader is to be awake and alert, to be dissatisfied at all times.

The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

To recognize another’s inwardness is to have seen the sacred.

People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.