business insights from real american leaders
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This 4th of July we are celebrating with business insights from real American leaders! Flip through 20 of these leaders and leave a comment of some of your favorites or any additions!TRANSCRIPT
“If I had asked people what they
wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford
“Determine the thing can and
shall be done, and then we shall find the
way.” Abraham Lincoln
“My principal business consists of giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected, ideas of others… Accordingly, I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.”
Thomas Edison
A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails
employment.”
“Never fear the want of business.
Thomas Jefferson
it is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.”
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes
Steve Jobs
“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.”
Mark Twain
We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea
of making money.”
“Disneyland is a work of love.
Walt Disney
Never forget this message when
working with people.”
“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from
their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’
Mary Kay Ash
there is only
opportunity.”
“There is no security on earth,
General Douglas MacArthur
Perfect practice makes perfect.”
“Practice does not make perfect.
Vince Lombardi
but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
Helen Keller
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Word of mouth is very powerful.
“If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that.
Jeff Bezos
That’s my standard.”
“In business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost
ability every day.
Donald Trump
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself, any direction you
choose!”
Dr. Seuss
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life.” Charles M. Schwab
“I skate where the puck is going to be,
not where it has been.”
Wayne Gretzky