• "Make your top managers rich and they will make you rich." Robert H. Johnson
  • "Vision is the art of seeing the invisible."Jonathan Swift
  • "To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind." Seneca
  • "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Walt Disney
  • "The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas." Dr. Linus Pauling
  • "You can dream it, you can do it." Walt Disney
  • "There's a way to do it better - find it."Thomas Edison
  • "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." Peter F. Drucker
  • "The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers." John Egan
  • "I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." Ralph Nader
  • "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." Henry Ford
  • "Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't." Peter Drucker
  • "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Michelangelo
  • "Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future." James Bertrand
  • "Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet." Henry Mintzberg
  • "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." Andrew Carnegie
  • "The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato
  • "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality."Warren Bennis
  • "Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -only in constant improvement and constant change." Tom Peters
  • "Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it." George Lucas
  • When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry J. Kaiser
  • "The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."Lawrence Miller
  • "Never invest in a business you cannot understand." Warren Buffett
  • "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth." Pearl S. Buck
  • "Hire character. Train skill." Peter Schutz
  • "Control your destiny or someone else will." Jack Welch
  • "Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found."James Russell Lowell
  • "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing." Warren Buffett
  • "In the long run men hit only what they aim at." Henry David Thoreau
  • "The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority." Ken Blanchard
  • "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." Winston Churchill
  • "The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces." Thomas Aquinas
  • "Make the workmanship surpass the materials." Ovid
  • "To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart." Thomas Watson, Sr.
  • "A good leader is not the person who does things right, but the person who finds the right things to do." Anthony T. Dadovano
  • "The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."Edwin H. Land
  • "Catch someone doing something right." Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
  • "Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish." Marcus Aurelius
  • "In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles." David Ben-Gurion
  • "You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways."M. Minsky
  • " Vision without execution is hallucination." Thomas Edison
  • "Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence." Hal Borland
  • "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau
  • "Big thinking precedes great achievement." Wilferd Peterson
  • "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams
  • "Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • "Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
  • "The best vision is insight." Malcolm S. Forbes
  • "Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." John Maxwell
  • "Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." Pat Riley
  • "When all think alike, then no one is thinking." Walter Lippman
  • "The empires of the future are empires of the mind." Winston Churchill
  • "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." Ralph Marston
  • "The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious."John Scully
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Mission

Business Education for International Economic Development passionately follows its mission to enhance international economic development through: 

  • Effective business education
  • Practical development of international managerial talent
  • Continued support to encourage life-long learning and
  • Building a shared vision of economic growth through international interdependence