Ambition

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

"Life is too short to be small"

"I have a dream"

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world"

"Motivation comes from wanting to do something, not from having to do it."

"Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders."

"Happiness is not achieved through direct pursuit, but as a by-product of an effort toward something greater."

"Man is not only what he conceives himself to be, but also what he wishes to be."

"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives—choice, not chance, determines your destiny."

"Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they can't get it wrong."

"The difference between an average salesperson and an extraordinary one is that the extraordinary persists five times longer."

"The salesperson of the future is a consultant who solves problems."

"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them creatively."

"The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves."

"Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution."

"Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you."

"The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else."

"The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines, and in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast."

"Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it."

"At least 40% of all businesses will die in the next 10 years… if they don’t figure out how to change their entire company to accommodate new technologies."

"All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country."

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

"I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past."

"The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more."

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

"No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself."

"You have to invent life."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

"The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love."