Motivation Speaks

Motivation Speaks

1. "What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed."

                                        Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's

2. "Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be."

                                 Lakshmi Mittal, chairman & CEO of ArcelorMittal

3. "Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create."

                                  Oprah Winfrey, media proprietor

4. "When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts."

                                    Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle Corporation

5. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

                                  Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb

6. "It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because all that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are."

                                 Mark Cuban, owner of Landmark Theaters and chairman of AXS TV

7. "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

                                David Brinkley, newscaster for NBC and ABC

8. "Make every detail perfect, and limit the number of details to perfect."

                               Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter

9. "If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen."

                                 Marissa Mayer, president & CEO of Yahoo!

10. "You don't need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream."

                                Michael Dell, founder of Dell

11. "Always deliver more than expected."

                                Larry Page, co-founder of Google

12. "Don't take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don't over-analyze everything.  I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work."

                               Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest

13. "If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large."

                               Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon

    14. "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."

                               Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn

15. "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

                               Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft