There is just one reason that we are placed on this Earth. That reason is to love and be loved – in that order. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
Good leaders make people’s strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, ‘Allegheny Mountain,’ lying at home in his hospital bed. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house – and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line – whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations… because they have no margin of error. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality of management. Frances Hesselbein Read Quote
