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Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many
great executioners are without ideas. One
without the other is worthless.
Tim
Blixseth - Ideas
- Great
- Action
Your life right now is a reflection of your
past thoughts. That includes all the great
things, and all the things you consider
not so great. Since you attract to you what
you think about most, it is easy to see
what your dominant thoughts have been on
every subject of your life, because that
is what you have experienced.
Rhonda
Byrne - Thinking
- Life
- Great
- Attraction
If we only have great companies, we will
merely have a prosperous society, not a
great one. Economic growth and power are
the means, not the definition, of a great
nation.
Jim
Collins - Great
- Society
- Companies
- Economy
- Power
A culture of discipline is not a principle
of business; it is a principle of greatness.
Jim
Collins - Great
- Discipline
- Business
- Culture
Greatness is not a function of circumstance.
Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter
of conscious choice, and discipline.
Jim
Collins - Great
- Discipline
- Decisions
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model
of leadership to triumph, we will see the
decline of corporations and institutions
of all types. The twentieth century was
a century of greatness, but we face the
very real prospect that the next century
will see very few enduring great institutions.
Jim
Collins - Management
- Famous
- Leadership
- Great
We must reject the idea.. well-intentioned,
but dead wrong.. that the primary path to
greatness in the social sectors is to become
"more like a business." Most businesses..
like most of anything else in life.. fall
somewhere between mediocre and good.
Jim
Collins - Society
- Business
- Wrong
- Ideas
- Great
- Good
One of the great movements in my lifetime
among educated people is the need to commit
themselves to action. Most people are not
satisfied with giving money; we also feel
we need to work.
Peter
Drucker -
Work - Philanthropy
- Action
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard
work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas
Edison
- Work
- Commitment
Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre
mind is incapable of understanding the man
who refuses to bow blindly to conventional
prejudices and chooses instead to express
his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert
Einstein - True
- Great
- Challenges
- Spirit
- Understanding
- Opinions
- Courage
What great changes have not been ambitious?
Melinda
Gates - Ambition
- Change
- Great
There are many qualities that make a great
leader. But having strong beliefs, being
able to stick with them through popular
and unpopular times, is the most important
characteristic of a great leader.
Rudy
Giuliani - Leadership
- Belief
- Challenges
- Strength
I have found no greater satisfaction than
achieving success through honest dealing
and strict adherence to the view that, for
you to gain, those you deal with should
gain as well.
Alan
Greenspan - Success
- Truth
- Profits
- Partnership
I think the
great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great
givers.
Mark
Victor Hansen - Philanthropy
- Life
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy
of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires
their noblest efforts.
Conrad
Hilton - Philanthropy
- God - Inspirational
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate
structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
Carl
Icahn - Companies
- Leadership
Research your idea. See if there's a demand.
A lot of people have great ideas, but they
don't know if there's a need for it. You
also have to research your competition.
Magic
Johnson - Competitive
- Research
- Ideas
- Demand
- Great
I just feel that my competitive drive is
far greater than anyone else that I’ve
met, and I think that I thrive on that.
Michael
Jordan - Competitive
- Great
- Motivational
Great talents are the most lovely and often
the most dangerous fruits on the tree of
humanity. They hang upon the most slender
twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl
Jung - Great
- Talent
- Human
Race - Risk
Let us think of education as the means of
developing our greatest abilities, because
in each of us there is a private hope and
dream which, fulfilled, can be translated
into benefit for everyone and greater strength
for our nation.
John
F. Kennedy - Education
- Great
- Hopes
- Dreams
- Strength
The greatest glory in living lies not in
never falling, but in rising every time
we fall.
Nelson
Mandela - Inspirational
- Great
- Challenges
- Determination
It's the little things you do that can make
a big difference. What are you attempting
to accomplish? What little thing can you
do today that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from
greatness.
Bob
Proctor - Change
- Greatness
- Action
I am proud of my country. But we need to
unite to make a unified India, free of communalism
and casteism. We need to build India into
a land of equal opportunity for all. We
can be a truly great nation if we set our
sights high and deliver to the people the
fruits of continued growth, prosperity and
equal opportunity.
Ratan
Tata - India
- Growth
- Proud
- Opportunity
- Great
- Wealth
The starting point of great success and
achievement has always been the same. It
is for you to dream big dreams. There is
nothing more important, and nothing that
works faster than for you to cast off your
own limitations than for you to begin dreaming
and fantasizing about the wonderful things
that you can become, have, and do.
Brian
Tracy - Achievement
- Planning
- Success
- Goals
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as
one of the great authors, because they have
a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead,
Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare,
and I’m not feeling so well myself.
Mark
Twain - Death
- Writing
- Habit
- Great
- Sorry
Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
Mark
Twain - Ambition
- Pessimistic
- Great
- Motivational
Some great people are leaders and others
are more lucky, in the right place at the
right time. I'd put myself in the latter
category. But I'd never call myself a normal
designer of anything.
Steve
Wozniak - Great
- Luck
- Leadership
- Management
If I could be useful to another human being,
even for a day, that would be a great thing.
It would be greater than all the big thoughts
I could have at the university.
Muhammad
Yunus - Help
- Great
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