BUSINESS LEADERS&SUCCESS

Rita recomended this book to me, and I want to recomend it to someone with passion for their dreams. Enjoy it !

Nike Co-founder Bill Bowerman 

    Losing can be a real beginning.
    Every weakness in a conpetitor could mean an advantage.
    Victory is doing the best you can, and even if you lose, you will have learned something.

Animator Walt Disney

     Disney wouldn't admit defeat. Instead, he vowed to start over with what he had----his talent.
     If they wanted to get anywhere, they had to go further than they'd already been.
     If I can't use the money now, if I can't have fun with it, I'm not going  to be able to take it with me.
     As long as they produced good luck, he'd tolerate almost anything except laziness, dishonesty or a negative attitude.
     Whatever we did had to be better than anybody else could do it.

Media Innovator Oprah Winfrey

     I am where I am today because I allowed myself to listen to my instincts.
     Life is a marathon, you don't win or lose at every turn.
     I think the ones who survive in life do it by hammering at it one day at a time.
     There is no such thing as failure in my life. I just don't believe it.
     The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway----to be scared, to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.
      Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.
      Everybody needs someone to show them the way out or up. Everybody.
      What you can't do is far more important than what you can do, if what you can't do is going to keep you from flying high.

Industrualist Andrew Carnegie

      Everybody should do something beyond the sphere of his duties.
      Carnegie believed in doing one thing and doing it well.
      The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

Publisher Katharine Graham

      She faced problems with calm and courage.
      I had come to realize that I could only do the job in whatever way I could do it. I couldn't try to be someone else.

Applied Materials' James Morgan

      Invest in your people, teach them, support them, and they'll take you to the top.
      Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Hewlett-Packard's Carly Fiorina

      Change is always more interesting to me than momentum.
      You have to love what you do, which means you need to know yourself pretty well.
      My advice is to focus 100% on doing the job you have better than anybody else.

Cosmetics Queen Mary Kay Ash

      Forcing myself to think positively did wonders for my spirit.
      A manager should never make a promise that something will be done unless he is absolutely certain that it will be done!

Self-Help Pioneer Dale Carnegie

      The only way to overcome fears was to confront them and not be discouraged by initial failures.
      The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

NBA Commissioner David Stern

       Think globally, act locally.
       Every time we have an event, it defines our brand.

Wal-Mart Founder Sam Walton

       I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
       Everyone is doing something right.
       Be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way.
       When somebody made a bad mistake----whether it was myself or anybody else----we talked about it, admitted it, tried to figure out how to correct it, and then moved on to the next day's work.
       Have fun. Show enthusiasm----always.

Paychex's Thomas Golisano

       You can teach ability----you can't teach attitude.
       You don't always have to be the pioneer. You just have to eventually do it better than everybody else.

McDonald's Ray Kroc

       As long as you're green you're growing.
       I never considered my dreams wasted energy, they were invariably linked to some form. of action.
       You can achieve anything if you set your mind to it.
       If you believe in something, you've got to be in it to the end of your toes.

Tupperware's Brownie Wise

       First, ask yourself if your desire for this thing is great enough that you would work hard to get it. Second, will this thing honestly be good for you and the people around you.
       To never lose sight of your goal, she recommended visualizing it.
       When I think of the life of Hellen Keller, I feel ashamed to even write the word impossible.
       Brag about the many talents you possess and what big things you can accomplish, simply by putting a few of them to work.

Radio Shack's Charles Tandy

       To this day, when I'm thinking about inventory, I always ask myself if I have enough white dye or too much purple.
       Tandy believed that a man's reach should exceed his grasp.

Barney Creator Sheryl Leach

        It seems to me that there's a natural force that goes into play to help you when you're doing something for a higher purpose. If you're doing something that serves yourself only, you won't get the same help, satisfaction or rewards. If you can find something to do that serves mankind, you'll have the wind at your back.

Bank of America's A.P.Giannini

       It's no use to decide what's going to happen unless you have the courage of your convictions. Many a brilliant idea has been lost because the man who dreamed it lacked the spunk or the spine to put it across.
       Decide what you want----and then go after it, hammer and tongs.

Chewing Gum Mogul William Wrigley Jr.

       Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
       A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.
       He can go ahead and do anything so ong as he doesn't know he can't do it.
       He kept his trademark optimism through good times and bad.

Organizer Nancy Brinker

       To be effective, you have to let people help you. Let them pour themselves into your dream and make it their own.
       You have to know in your heart that you have a vision, but you have to let the vision evolve.

Aviation Pioneer William Boeing

       There is no authority except facts. Facts are obtained by accurate observation. Deductions are to be made only from facts.
       We are embarked as pioneers upon a new science and industry in which our problems are so new and unusal that it behooves no one to dismiss any novel idea with the statement that "it can't be done."

AmeriCredit's Michael Barrington

       I learned at a very early age to never accept a problem. I always treat it like a challenge, something that can be overcome with enough work and thought.
       We're assessing every idea offered, whether it's something we could do.
       Many of life's greatest opportunities lie behind the easy presumption that something won't work.

Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang

       You have to select your target extraordinarily well, and pick one or two things to do.
       Work is a natual part of life, to be enjoyed rather than dreaded.

IGT's Charles Mathewson

       Success is a concept that has to be with you every part of every day.
       What I learned is that money is something you've got to have to keep a roof over your head, but it really doesn't matter. The important thing is to make a living doing sonething you can have fun doing.

Ebony's John H. Johnson

       Don't get mad, get smart.
       Size up a situation and determine if it advanced my interests, and if it did, to focus all mu energies on that one point.