28 Quotes from the world’s past & current leaders to inspire the world’s future leaders.

1. 'I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.' Bill Gates

2. 'Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.' Steve Jobs

3. 'I don't want a nation of thinkers; I want a nation of workers.' John D Rockerfeller

4. 'Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.' Steve Jobs

5. 'I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.' John D Rockefeller

6. 'A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.' Mark Shuttleworth.

7. 'Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.' Steve Jobs.

8. 'Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.' Bill Gates

9. 'When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place.' Mark Zuckerberg.

10. 'A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.' Richard Branson

11. 'I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.' Nelson Mandela

12. 'A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.' Albert Einstein

13. 'Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.' Richard Branson

14. 'It always seems impossible until its done.' Nelson Mandela

15. 'By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.' Benjamin Franklin

16. 'After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.' Nelson Mandela

17. 'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.' Barack Obama

18. 'Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.'Albert Einstein

19. 'Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.' Benjamin Franklin

20. 'Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.' Stephen Covey

21. 'If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.' Henry Ford

22. 'Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.' Dwight D. Eisenhower

23. 'The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.' Andrew Carnegie

24. 'The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.' Henry A. Kissinger

25. 'To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.' Aristotle Onassis

26. 'You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.' Larry Page

27. 'You have to think anyway, so why not think big?' Donald Trump

28. 'Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.' John F Kennedy

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