If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

Thomas Carlyle

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Ilka Chase

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Erma Bombeck

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

Sloan Wilson

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Charles Schwab

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, raising their performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.

Peter Drucker

When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.

Larry Ellison

In an organization where innovation happens, very often people ignore orders.

Robert Sutton

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

Peter Drucker

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

It is extremely important to be able to listen to the people who bring you bad news.

Andy Grove

Productivity … comes from challenged, empowered, rewarded teams of people.

Jack Welch

Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers.

Seth Godin

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

The great tragedy of science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

If you see a formula in the Physical Review that extends over a quarter of a page, forget it. It's wrong. Nature isn't that complicated.

Berndt Matthias

People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist.

John Harvey Jones

Did Alexander Graham Bell do any market research before he invented the telephone?

Steve Jobs

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

Bill Vaughan

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

Noel Coward

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker