The world of the 1990s and beyond will not belong to ‘managers’ or those who can make the numbers dance. The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders—people who not only have enormous amounts of energy but who can energize those whom they lead.
—Jack Welch (American Businessperson)
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
—Henry Ford (American Businessperson)
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take firm root in our personal experience.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
99% of the time, in my experience, the hard part about creativity isn’t coming up with something no one has ever thought of before. The hard part is actually executing the thing you’ve thought of.
—Seth Godin (American Entrepreneur)
Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.
—Calvin Coolidge (American Head of State)
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
—Abigail Adams (American First Lady)
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (American Poet)
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet)
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
—Yiddish Proverb