Strategies of World-changing Firms       Success Lessons from Business Legends Achievement Advice by Self-made Billionaires   We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. Jeff Bezos Amazon I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling. Richard Branson Business schools reward complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. Warren Buffet Berkshire Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. Coco Chanel You don't have to be a genius or a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. Michael Dell If you can dream it, you can do it. All of our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom. Larry Ellison Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others. Henry Ford Dream about a great impact you could create. Pick good people, use small teams, give them excellent tools. Bill Gates Microsoft Since I was a child, my dream has been to compete in motor vehicle races with a vehicle of my own making, and to win. Soichiro Honda Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Steve Jobs Apple I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful. Philip H. Knight Don’t be afraid of the trial-and-error approach. Estee Lauder I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes. Jack Ma Alibaba Business is people. Management is perpetual creation. Konosuke Matsushita Panasonic Create a family-like feeling that employees and managers share the same fate. Akio Morita The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow. Rupert Murdoch 5 Keys to building a great company are leadership, vision, global benchmarking, measuring to improve, and shared values. Naryana Murhty I am interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous. Elon Musk It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. Larry Page Google A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. Charles Schwab As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald Trump Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. Sam Walton Move fast, break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. Mark Zuckerberg Facebook   Tweet     Entrepreneurial Attributes 8×8 Habits of a Venturepreneur Business Success 360 How To Build a Great Company Innovation Process A-to-Z/360 10 Commandments of Innovation Entrepreneurial Organization 3Ss of Great Performance