Memorable Quotes

“Out there in some garage is an entrepreneur who’s forging a bullet with your company’s name on it.”
Gary Hamel, Business Writer

“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”
Coleman Hawkins, Jazz Musician

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
Napoleon Hill, Author

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody.”
Herbert B. Swope, American Journalist

“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”
Charles Kettering, Engineer

“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
Everett Dirksen

“Without customers, you don’t have a business. You have a hobby.”
Don Peppers & Martha Rogers, Return on Customer

“Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers.”
Voltaire

“The minute you’re satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore.”
Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame Baseball player

“Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction.”
Joel Barker, Future Edge

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Andy Warhol

“An organization becomes bewildered rather than energized when it’s asked to do too much at once.”
Michael Hammer & James Champy, Reengineering The Corporation

“If you try to do something and fail, you are vastly better off than if you had tried nothing and succeeded.”
The Back of a Sugar Packet (Anonymous)

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
Phil 4:13

The minute you’re satisfied with where you are, you aren’t there anymore.
Tony Gwynn, Hall of Fame Baseball player

Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction.
Joel Barker, Future Edge

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
James Cash Penney, Founder of JCPenney

For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.
Tom Barrett, U.S. Politician

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey, American Author and Environmental Advocate

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
Andy Rooney, American radio/TV writer and personality

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
Alex Noble

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.
Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
Bruce Lee, Martial Arts Instructor, Actor, Film Director

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.
Harvey S. Firestone, Fonder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
   
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.
Frank Howard Clark, American Screenwriter

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan, Actor and 40th President of the United States

"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping."
Julia Margaret Cameron, British Photographer

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

"The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership."
Harvey S. Firestone, Fonder of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
Benjamin Franklin

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
Karen Kaiser Clark, Author, Motivational Speaker

"Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you."
Arthur Levitt, Former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

"You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure that growth to be sustained has to be shared, and are built on the principle that the prosperity of this world is indivisible."
Gordon Brown, Former UK Prime Minister

"Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward."
Edward Felten, Princeton University Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs

"People have been convinced that growth for growth's sake is a good thing."
Tom Scholz, Founder of the Boston Band, Philanthropist