Business Leader Quotes

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Bill Gates

For the wise man, one human life is sufficient, and the stupid man will not know what to do with eternity.
William Shirer, a favorite quote of Bernard Rapoport

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Henry Ford

I don't have to work hard, but we are changing China. It's not how much money you make, it's how you change society.
Jack Ma (As quoted in Barron's 6 June 2011)

Rapoport is a cheerful workaholic, a chronic optimist, a tennis nut, and an avid bibliophile who can't quite understand why other people don't get as much of a thrill out of working as he does.
Jim Wright on Bernard Rapoport (in Being Rapoport)

Strong people have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
Andrew Mellon

When you work twenty hours a day, when do you have time to develop friends who are not in the business?
Lee Iacocca (Iacocca, chapter 10)

There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that this will work. It is one characteristics of a leader that he not doubt for one moment the capacity of the people he is leading to realize whatever he is dreaming. Imagine if Martin Luther King said "I have a dream. But I am not sure if they are up to it."
Benjamin Zander, TED Conference 2008