"Today acccomplishments were yesterdays impossibilities."

(R.H.Shuller)

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

(Mahatma Gandhi)

"It's the athleticism of the great businessperson that is often overlooked. Cerebral alone doesn't cut it."

(Mark Stevens)

“Employers are like horses — they require management.”

(P.G. Wodehouse - Carry on, Jeeves)

“People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

(Peter F Drucker)

"Een kunstenaar is een designer die kan aantonen dat hij geleden heeft;"

(Gert Van Mol)

“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”

(John C Maxwell)

“It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important."

(Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011)
[BusinessWeek, Oct. 12, 2004]

“The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.

(Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011)

“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it. That’s somewhat understandable, because there are many moments that are filled with despair and agony, when you have to fire people and cancel things and deal with very difficult situations. That’s when you find out who you are and what your values are.

(Steve Jobs)(1955 - 2011)
[Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000]

“I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore. When we finally presented it at the shareholders’ meeting, everyone in the auditorium gave it a five-minute ovation. What was incredible to me was that I could see the Mac team in the first few rows. It was as though none of us could believe we’d actually finished it. Everyone started crying.”

(Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011)
[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

"That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
BusinessWeek, May 25, 1998

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[1982, quoted in Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, 1987]

“The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[Apple Confidential: The Real Story of Apple Computer Inc., May 1999]

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998]

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[On Mac OS X, Fortune, Jan. 24, 2000]

“For something this complicated, it’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)