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

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