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Dream Big and Never Let Anything Stand in Your Way

Martin L. King

Christiano Ronaldo

Kobe Bryant

Jim Carey

Jesse Itzler

Sara Blakely

Grant Cardone

Mark Cuban

Simone Biles

Jesicca Cox

JK Bowling

Lewis Hamilton

David Goggins

Venus Williams

Gary Vaynerchuk

Jay Shetty

Lori Greiner

Tim Ferriss

Angelica Nwandu

Simon Sinek

Sinéad Burke

Les Brown

Seth Goddin

Malala Yousafzai

Eric Thomas

Greta Thunberg

Brendon Burchard

Serena Williams

Faith Odunsi

Tyler Perry

Colonel Sanders

Ray Kroc

Orville Wright

Wilbur Wright

Will Smith

Oprah Winfrey

Emelia Earhart

Elon Musk

Barack Obama

Nick Vujicic

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Henry Ford
Richard Branson
Carlos Slim
Coco Chanel
Drew Houston
Oprah Winfrey
Dr. Edward G Rogoff
Jack Ma
Irene Rosenfeld
Chris Gardner
Jennifer Lopez
Napoleon Hill
Aliko Dangote
Jeff Bezos
Steve Jobs
Nikola Tesla
Booker T. Washington
Nelson Mandela
Elon Musk
Alan Turing
Louis Zamperini
Bessie Coleman
Warren Buffet
Naveen Jain
Bruce Lee
Muhammad Ali
Kobe Bryant
George Washington Carver
Garrett Morgan
Les brown
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Katherine Johnson
Wole Soyinka

Founder of Ford Motors

Here’s an example of a 100 year plus vision. He wasn’t interested in just making another luxury automobile that only the rich and famous could afford. He wanted to sell an automobile that the Everyday American could afford.

As Ford puts it, “I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no man will be unable to own one.”

Henry Ford

Founder Virgin Group

“You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

”If your dreams don't scare you, they are too small.”

“You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission”

“If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got."

Sir Richard Branson

CEO & Founder of Telmex. América Móvil. Grupo Carso

“I don’t believe too much in luck. I believe in circumstances. I believe in work.”

Carlos Slim

Fashion designer and business woman

“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”

“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”

Coco Chanel

Co-Founder & CEO of Dropbox

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”.

Drew Houston

Media Mogul. Actress. Talk show host. TV producer and Philanthropist

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

“You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.”

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”

Oprah Winfrey

Dean at LIU School of Business, Public Admin and Information Sciences
2010 Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year (USASBE).

"This is a book that needed to be written. In a world that changes more quickly than ever, identifying the factors that lead to successful corporate longevity is a valuable guide to all readers."

Dr. Edward G Rogoff

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group

“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”

"You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”

"Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful."

Jack Ma

Former Chairman and CEO of Mondelēz International

“I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.”

Irene Rosenfeld

Businessman, Investor, Stockbroker, Motivational speaker and Author

“Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me.”

Remember the movie The Pursuit of Happyness, with Will Smith, it was about him.

Chris Gardner

Singer. Actress. Producer

“I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice but at the end of the day you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.”

Jennifer Lopez

Pioneer of self help success books.

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

“The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors"

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”

Napoleon Hill

President & CEO of Dangote Group

“In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.”

“In the journey to success, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”

“I believe in hard work, and one of my business secrets is hard work.”

“To start a successful business, you must start small and dream big.”

Aliko Dangote

Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Amazon

“One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.”

“Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.”

“It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.”

“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.”

Jeff Bezos

Founder of Apple

"Stay hungry, stay foolish."

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

Steve Jobs

One of the greatest minds, and unequivocally the greatest inventor

“Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.”

“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”

Nikola Tesla

Educator. Author. Orator. Advisor to U.S. presidents

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."

Booker T. Washington

South African President May 1994 – June 1999

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

Nelson Mandela

Founder & CEO Space X, Tesla. Chairman at SolarCity

"Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up."

"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

Elon Musk

Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist

“Sometimes it's the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”

“Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.”

Alan Turing

World War II veteran. Christian evangelist. Olympic distance runner and Japanese prisoner of war survivor.

“God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me."

“One moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory.”

“I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.”

“Your mind is everything. It’s like a muscle. You must exercise it or it will atrophy—just like a muscle.”

Louis "Louie" Zamperini

Civil aviator & stunt pilot. First woman of African-American descent and the first of Native American descent, to hold a pilot license June 1921.

“I made my mind up to try. I tried and was successful.”

“I refused to take no for an answer”

Bessie Coleman

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

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

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction."

Warren Buffet

Executive Chairman of Moon Express & CEO of Viome

“The biggest risk you take in life is not doing something.”

"Find something you're willing to die for and live for it."

"Winning is in your mind there's nothing more powerful than a changed mind."

"Our self worth is not based on what we own, our self worth comes from what we create. So if you haven't created anything, you're still a parasite on humanity."

Naveen Jain

Actor. Philosopher. Martial Artist. Director. Teacher

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

"As you think, so shall you become."

"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

Bruce Lee

World Champion. Boxer. Activist. Philanthropy

"Don’t count the days; make the days count."

"“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”"

"Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration." "It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."

Muhammad Ali

Basketball player. Business man. Author.

“Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almost”

“The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”

“I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.”

“Use your success, wealth and influence to put them in the best position to realize their own dreams and find their true purpose.”

Kobe Bryant

Agricultural Scientist. Inventor. Environmentalist

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world”

“Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.”

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ."

George Washington Carver

Inventor. Business man. Community Leader

“If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?” -

“If you want to do something then be the best.”

Garrett Morgan

Motivational Speaker. Author.

“You will win if you don’t quit.” “You gotta be hungry.”

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

“No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I am going to make it.”

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

Les brown

Actor. Producer. Businessman. Bodybuilder, and Former Governor

“What is the point of being on this earth if you are going to be like everyone else?”

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”

“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mathematician. NASA Scientist. Helped pioneer use of computers to perform complex calculations

“Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.”

“I liked working with smart people. I like to learn. That's an art and a science.”

“I'm always interested in learning something new.”

Katherine Johnson

Nobel Laureate. Playwright. Novelist. Poet. Essayist. Professor.

“You cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence.”

“A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.”

Wole Soyinka

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Founder of Ford Motors

Henry Ford

Founder Virgin Group

Sir Richard Branson

CEO & Founder of Telmex. América Móvil. Grupo Carso

Carlos Slim

Fashion designer and business woman

Coco Chanel

Co-Founder & CEO of Dropbox

Drew Houston

Media Mogul. Actress. Talk show host. TV producer and Philanthropist

Oprah Winfrey

Dean at LIU School of Business, Public Admin and Information Sciences2010 Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year (USASBE).

Dr. Edward G Rogoff

Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Alibaba Group

Jack Ma

Former Chairman and CEO of Mondelēz International

Irene Rosenfeld

Businessman, Investor, Stockbroker, Motivational speaker and Author

Chris Gardner

Singer. Actress. Producer

Jennifer Lopez

Pioneer of self help success books.

Napoleon Hill

President & CEO of Dangote Group

Aliko Dangote

Founder, Chairman, CEO and President of Amazon

Jeff Bezos

Founder of Apple

Steve Jobs

One of the greatest minds, and unequivocally the greatest inventor

Nikola Tesla

Educator. Author. Orator. Advisor to U.S. presidents

Booker T. Washington

South African President May 1994 – June 1999

Nelson Mandela

Founder & CEO Space X, Tesla. Chairman at SolarCity

Elon Musk

Mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist

Alan Turing

World War II veteran. Christian evangelist. Olympic distance runner and Japanese prisoner of war survivor.

Louis "Louie" Zamperini

Civil aviator & stunt pilot. First woman of African-American descent and the first of Native American descent, to hold a pilot license June 1921.

Bessie Coleman

Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway

Warren Buffet

Executive Chairman of Moon Express & CEO of Viome

Naveen Jain

Actor. Philosopher. Martial Artist. Director. Teacher

Bruce Lee

World Champion. Boxer. Activist. Philanthropy

Muhammad Ali

Basketball player. Business man. Author.

Kobe Bryant

Agricultural Scientist. Inventor. Environmentalist

George Washington Carver

Inventor. Business man. Community Leader

Garrett Morgan

Motivational Speaker. Author.

Les brown

Actor. Producer. Businessman. Bodybuilder, and Former Governor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mathematician. NASA Scientist. Helped pioneer use of computers to perform complex calculations

Katherine Johnson

Nobel Laureate. Playwright. Novelist. Poet. Essayist. Professor.

Wole Soyinka

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