“Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Be as you wish to seem.” – Socrates
“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford
“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.” – Bill Gates
“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.” – Ayn Rand
“Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment…intention and desire in the field of pure potentiality have infinite organizing power. And when we introduce an intention in the fertile ground of pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us.” – Deepak Chopra
“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” – Thomas Alva Edison
“Figure out what is desirable and make that what you deliver; or figure out what you can deliver and make it desirable. But remember, the former is a lot easier than the latter.” – Sergio Zyman
“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.” – Lee lacocca
“Changes occur when there’s a gap between what is and what should be.” – Craig McCaw
“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.” – Charles F. Kettering
“Filling a need that others aren’t addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.” – Craig McCaw
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs
“I don’t give investment advice.” – Craig McCaw
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling.” – John W. Gardner
“I don’t look at paying $8 billion for the directories business of Qwest as the thing that would really excite me… I’m looking at a connection to the human being where it’s interesting.” – Craig McCaw
“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” – Winston Churchill
“If you’re worried about your legacy, you’re worried about the past, I’d rather not focus on the past.” – Craig McCaw
“I don’t want someone who doesn’t make mistakes, because they never learn anything.” – Tommy Lasorda