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Ray Kroc | Richard Branson | Sam Walton | Thomas Edison

Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

		George Soros, financier, philanthropist, philosopher. Chairman of Soros Fund Management LLC and the Open Society Institute
		Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

		Henry Ford, pioneer of welfare capitalism in the US and founder of Ford Motor Company
		If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

		Lakshmi Mittal, chairman and CEO of Mittal Steel Company
		Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

		Larry Page, co founder and president of products at Google
		You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

		Li Ka Shing, chairman of Cheung Kong Holdings
		The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men. Your dedication should not be confined for your own gain, but unleashes your passion for our beloved country as well as for the integrity and humanity of mankind.

		Peter Drucker, writer, management consultant and university professor
		Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I've worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses. Executives owe it to the organisation and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

		Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's Corporation
		Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

		Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group
		I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

		Sam Walton, co founder Wal-Mart
		High expectations are the key to everything.

		Thomas Edison, inventor
		Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

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