A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions

Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest

Confucius

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Sun Tzu

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

Sun Tzu

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good

Sun Tzu

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed......

Mohandas Gandhi

You must be the change you wish to see in the world

Mohandas Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win

Mohandas Gandhi

During my lifetime I have dedicated my life to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society......it is an ideal which I hope to live for...but my Lord if needs be, it is an ideal I am prepared to die for

Nelson Mandela

I dropped out of College after about 6 months and then stayed around as a "drop in" for about 18 months before I finally quit...

Steve Jobs

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows

Warren Buffett

Either we do it...or they crush us

Joseph Stalin

Let us therefore brace to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the Empire were to last one thousand years, men would still say, "this was their finest hour

Winston Churchill

I did not have sexual relations with that woman

Bill Clinton

Don’t go for second best baby, put your lover to the test. Respect yourself

Madonna

and she’s climbing a stairway to Heaven

Robert Plant and Led Zeppelin

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves

Lao Tzu

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Lao Tzu

Yes we Can

Barak Obama

Ich bin Ein Berliner

JFK

I have a dream today we...will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual ree at last, free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last

Martin Luther King

the ballot or the bullet

Malcolm X

Stumbling is not falling

Malcolm X

I am the greatest, I am the greatest

Muhammad Ali

that was absolute rubbish, awful, it was like some singer on a cruise ship, complete karaoke

Simon Cowell

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent

Maya Angelou

Don't be afraid to see what you see

Ronald Reagan

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new

Albert Einstein

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one

John Lennon

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

John Lennon

Just beat it

Michael Jackson

Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe

Jose Mourinho

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led

Warren Bennis

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery

Warren Bennis

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren Bennis

Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

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Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

John Kotter

But once you are in that field, emotional intelligence emerges as a much stronger predictor of who will be most successful, because it is how we handle ourselves in our relationships that determines how well we do once we are in a given job.

Daniel Goleman

Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer

Tom Peters

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders

Tom Peters

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act

Jack Welch

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success

Jack Welch

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success

Jack Welch

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business

Lee Kwan Yue

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead - but aim to do something big

Deng Xiaoping

Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious

Deng Xiaoping

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