Leadership Storytelling Quotes & Sayings

The press-savy Lincoln looked not to the future, but to the past. — Harold Holzer

Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: Tell the history of our time through the people who make it. — Walter Isaacson

Stories were heirlooms in these parts. — Robert Kurson

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream. — Eugene H. Peterson

Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are. — Carmine Gallo

In this era of public survival through continuous storytelling, people want someone who might surprise them. — Ron Suskind

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction. — Catherine Robinson-Walker