Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.
Mary Parker FollettPower-over is resorted to time without number because people will not wait for the slower process of education.
Mary Parker FollettI am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered, for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people, there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.
Mary Parker FollettWe can never catch up with life ... we shall always be eating the soft part of our melting ice and meanwhile the nice hard part is rapidly melting too.
Mary Parker FollettThe most successful leader of all is the one who sees another picture not yet actualized. He sees the things which are not yet there... Above all, he should make his co-workers see that it is not his purpose which is to be achieved, but a common purpose, born of the desires and the activities of the group.
Mary Parker Follett