Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by C. William Pollard (American Businessman, Author)

C. William “Bill” Pollard (b.1938) is an American business leader and an author of books on leadership.

A native of Chicago, Pollard studied at Wheaton College, Illinois, and received a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law. He practiced corporate finance and tax law and served as faculty at Wheaton College. Since 1977, Pollard worked at The ServiceMaster Company and rose to become its chief executive officer (1983–93, 1999–2000,) and then chair of its board of directors.

Pollard led ServiceMaster’s spectacular growth and diversification through the acquisitions of other home and commercial services companies—Terminix, TruGreen/ChemLawn, Merry Maids, and American Home Shield. Under his leadership, ServiceMaster experienced 22 successive years of revenue ($234 million to $6.4 billion) and profit growth.

Pollard is the author of such leadership books as The Soul of the Firm (1996) and The Tides of Life (2014) that express his Christian approach to management. He has also contributed leadership articles to many books and magazines.

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Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
C. William Pollard
Topics: Information

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.
C. William Pollard
Topics: Ideas

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
C. William Pollard
Topics: Responsibility, Opportunity, Leadership

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
C. William Pollard
Topics: Improvement, Change

In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
C. William Pollard
Topics: Mistakes

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
C. William Pollard
Topics: Learning, Success

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.
C. William Pollard
Topics: Decision

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