“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that."

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) 

“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

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

“I think it’s brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I’ve ever seen is called television — but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.”

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) 
[Rolling Stone, Dec. 3, 2003]

“Things don’t have to change the world to be important."

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[Wired, February 1996]

“These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I’m not downplaying that."

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
[Wired, February 1996]

“The problem is I’m older now, I’m 40 years old, and this stuff doesn’t change the world. It really doesn’t.

Steve Jobs
[Wired, February 1996]

“It takes these very simple-minded instructions—‘Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it’s greater than this other number’––but executes them at a rate of, let’s say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.”

Steve Jobs
[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]

"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile."

(Sean Connery)

"Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."

(Confucius)

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

(Saint Exupery)

"Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it."

(Philip Crosby)
(1926 2001, American business philosopher and writer on quality)

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

(Abraham Lincoln)

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

(Sophocles)

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

(Oscar Wilde)

"Professionalism means consistency of quality."

(Frank Tyger)

(Brooklyn-born Trenton (NJ) Times editorial cartoonist, humorist, columnist and Promotion Manager, earning him the nickname of "Mr. Times" amongst his colleagues and the Trenton community.)

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

(Saint Exupery)

"It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy."

(Seneca)

"He who has learned how to obey will know how to command."

(Solon)

"The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed."

(Publius Syrus)

"Charm is a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question."

Albert Camus
(1913-1960)

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

(Rita Mae Brown)
(Born November 28, 1944, American writer, best known for her first novel Rubyfruit Jungle)

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"I light my candle from their torches."

(Robert Burton)

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

(George Patton)

"Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully."

(Thomas Fuller)
(1608 – 16 August 1661, English churchman and historian)

"Where there is no vision, the people perish."

(Proverbs 29:18)

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

(Greek Proverb)

"Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior."

(John Churton Collins)
(1848 – 1908, English literary critic)

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."

(General Douglas MacAuthur)

"God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful."

(Mother Theresa)

"A bold onset is half the battle."

(Giuseppe Garibaldi)
(Italian freedom fighter: 1807 - 1882)

"A bold onset is half the battle."

(Giuseppe Garibaldi)

"An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions."

(Napoleon Bonaparte)

"Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm."

(Publilius Syrus)
(Latin writer, 1st century BC)

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

(Martin Luther King, Jr) (from Christian Leadership World)

"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

(Earl Wilson)

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

(Al Bernstein)

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

(Mark Twain)

"Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts."

(Unknown)

"It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."

(Roger Babson)

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

(Woody Allen)

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

(General George S. Patton)

"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."

(Sir Winston Churchill)

"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."

(Warren Buffett)

"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

(Bob Dylan)

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

(Dale Carnegie)

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

(Harold R McAlindon)

"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

(Theodore Roosevelt)

"Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too."

(Robert Half)