“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.” – Charles F. Kettering

“Nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease…with carefreeness, harmony, and love. And when we harness the forces of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.” – Deepak Chopra

“Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi

“If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.” – Larry Page

“Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.” – Dwight David Eisenhower

“There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.” – Orison Swett Marden

“Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.” – Lee Iacocca

“Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.” – Jack Welch

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” – Confucius

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton

“Idle minds are the devil’s playground.” – The Holy Vedas

“In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.” – Harold S. Geneen

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker

“If you’re not learning while you’re earning, you’re cheating yourself out of the compensation.” – Napoleon Hill

“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.” – Charles F. Kettering

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” – Harvey S. Firestone

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch