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

Dale A. Miller, Doctor of Educational Administration (Ed. D. Stanford), served as President of several American colleges during his renowned academic career, but, over the last 10 years, turned his remarkable energies to elevate business education and systems in Eastern Europe and China. His remarkable dedication to industrial development in emerging economies enhances BEIED's ability to teach strategic planning practices. Miller delivers exceptionally well-received skill-development experiences that advance individual managerial competence. An establish project management teacher, Miller's pragmatic style incorporates local cultural and socio-economic profiles into the insights and knowledge he builds. 

Earl Sedlik, Harvard MBA and graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, directed the Business Education Programs at City University after a distinguished career as a management consultant focusing on new enterprise development. Sedlik is an award winning, captivating instructor with broad credentials in marketing, business planning, finance, and technology. BEIED benefits from the depth of his managerial experience and his established dedication to international managerial skill development. As an entrepreneur with a high tech background, Sedlik infuses his presentations with practical experiences and 'lessons learned' that add operational insight to all his seminars. As Managing Principal, Sedlik coordinates the BEIED portfolio of services to achieve effective economic development through business education. 

Nickolay Nickolov, MBA ( University of Lincoln) spearheads the international development, marketing, recruiting, and operational efforts in Eastern Europe and USA. Since 1998, Mr. Nickolov has managed several operations that address the higher educational needs of eastern European scholars. He and his staff coordinate student recruitment, faculty recruitment and training, credential validation, educational facilities, and accreditation matriculation with many international institutions of higher learning. Mr. Nickolov manages BEIED's eastern European operations where he applies state-of-the-art, on-line, face-to-face, and blended learning operations.