Bill Gates: Chairman of Microsoft “It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
Larry Page: Co-Founder of Google “You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea” ~ from a 2001 BusinessWeek article.
Richard Branson: Chairman of the Virgin Group “My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had — everyday I’m learning something new.”
Steve Jobs: Co-Founder of Apple “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Walter Elias a.k.a. ‘Walt Disney:’ Co-Founder of Walt Disney Productions “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Henry Ford: Founder of the Ford Motor Company “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently… A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”
Warren Buffett: Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
Jeff Bezos: Chairman and CEO of Amazon “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”
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