“The noblest search is the search for excellence”
– Lyndon Johnson
“I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people…If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence”
– Jack Welch
“You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out”
– Warren Buffet
“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners… Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing… not moving toward excellence”
– Denis Waitley
“Strategy 101 is about choices : you can’t be all things to all people. Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; its about deliberately choosing to be different.”
– Michael Porter
“Uncommon thinkers reuse what common thinkers refuse”
– JRD Tata
“For me campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses”
– Anita Roddick
“We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity”
– Akio Morita
“Be not afraid of greatness : some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”
– William Shakespeare
“Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service”
– Peter F Drucker
“To prevent environmental catastrophes caused by human negligence or obtuseness or callous obduracy, we need practical reason as well as sympathy and commitment”
– Amartya Sen
“We don’t know where the markets are going….we have to observe what’s going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other”
– Carlos Ghosn