"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein: Was a theoretical physicist

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings--and put compensation as a carrier behind it--you almost don't have to manage them.
- Jack Welch

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
- J.C. Penney

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.
- Daisy Bates

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."
— Harvey Firestone: Tire executive

"Never let yesterday use up too much of today."
— Will Rogers: Humorist

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. - E.M. Gray

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
— John D. Rockefeller: Was an American industrialist and philanthropist

I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance. - Steve Jobs

“The biggest lesson I have ever learned is the stupendous importance of what we think. If I knew what you think, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you what you are; by changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.” — Dale Carnegie

“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.” — Napoleon Hill

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” — James Allen

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.”
— Brian Tracy

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." — Abraham Lincoln: 16th president of the United States

The most common cause of executive failure is inability or unwillingness to change with the demands of a new position. The executive who keeps on doing what he has done successfully before is almost bound to fail.- Peter Drucker

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance."
— Marie Curie: Was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and a two-time Nobel Prize winner

"The mind is the ground of everything."
— Thich Nhat Hanh: Buddhist monk, scholar, and peace activist

"A man should take away not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for thus superfluous acts will not follow after."
— Marcus Aurelius: Was a Roman emperor and philosopher

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
— John W. Gardner: Was the secretary of health, education and welfare