The market is a mechanism for sorting the efficient from the inefficient, it is not a substitute for responsibility. (Charles Handy)

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be. (Charles Handy)

The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can’t be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can’t be measured […]

The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms. ( Charles Handy)

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.. (Charles Handy)

Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can. (Charles Handy)

It is easy to listen to a new idea and say “Why.” It is more exciting to listen and say “Why not.” (Charles Handy)

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. (Charles Handy)

If there is one general law of communication it is that we never communicate as effectively as we think we do. (Charles Handy)