Werner Erhard
Werner Erhard
Werner Hans Erhard:7is a critical thinker and author of transformational models and applications for individuals, groups, and organizations. He has written about integrity, performance, leadership and transformation. Werner Erhard has lectured at Harvard University, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, University of Rochester, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Yale University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford Union at Oxford University, and the US Air Force Academy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 September 1935
CountryUnited States of America
Werner Erhard quotes about
- horse
- parent
- our-relationship
- happy
- accepting-what-is
- accepting
- integrity
- creating
- earning
- perfect
- groups
- opportunity
- wish
- function
- participation
- live-your-life
- significant
- life-is-short
- order
- games
- inspirational-life
- stories
- process
- logic
- satisfaction
- principles
- individual
- common-sense
- community
- leader
Life is a game. In order to have a game something has to be more importantthan something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.
If you stand in the rain, you get wet, whether you understand water or not.
I could always tell when an organization was in good shape. I could tell because the manager of the organization would always be talking about how great the people in the organization were. If the manager was talking about anything other than how great people in the organization were, I knew that the organization was in bad shape. The way to manage an organization successfully is to manage it in such a way that you can be proud of the people with whom you are working. You have to find a way to interact with the people with whom you are working in a way that makes you proud of them.
Whatever you are pushing against, you are stuck to.
The problems we have now in communities and societies are going to be resolved only when we are brought together by a common sense that each of us is a visionary. Each of us must come to the realization that we can function and live at the level of vision rather than following some great leader's vision. Instead of looking for a great leader, we are in an era where each of us needs to find the great leader in ourselves.
Until you've completed your relationship with your parents, all your relationships will be about your parents.
In life you wind up with one of two things - the results or the reason why you don’t have the results. Results don’t have to be explained. They just are.
Love is granting another the space to be the way they are and the way they are not.
Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person’s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs … Individuals transform when there’s a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they’ve already got...
Life is a game. In order to have a game, something has to be more important than something else. If what already is, is more important than what isn't, the game is over. So, life is a game in which what isn't, is more important than what is. Let the good times roll.
Oversimplifying somewhat, honoring your word as we define it means you either keep your word (do what you said you would do and by the time you said you would do it), or as soon as you know that you will not, you say that you will not to those who were counting on your word and clean up any mess caused by not keeping your word.
Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.
Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.
Individuals transform when there is a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they've already got.