Our world is blessed with exceptionally talented and wise individuals from days gone until our modern era; from politics, business, Science, sport, society, entertainment, arts and management.
We hope you will find your inspiration for the coming year. Go ahead print it out, save the URL on your desktop or distribute it to friends and start a focus group that will meet once a month and discuss the merits of a particular quote for a business, a person or the group itself.
The quotations are carefully selected to portray the ever present juxtapose in the world, yet the existing steps for development, improvement and advancement.
We at Ventures Africa look forward to writing about you as the next leader on the African continent and this is our little effortto spur you on.
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
Politics
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” – Abraham Lincoln
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. Mahatma Gandhi Indian political and spiritual leader
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Sir Winston Churchill British politician
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men” – Martin Luther King, Jr
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela
Business
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business” – Henry Ford
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible” – Walt Disney
“The company is the pioneer and as such will always be the seeker of unknown” – Akio Morita
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others” – Bill Gates
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower” – Steve Jobs
“Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home” – Aliko Dangote
“As you start out in life, it is important that you know at least something about everything, but as you get older it is important that you know everything about something” – Johann Rupert
“A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality” – Strive Masiyiwa
“Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people” – Mark Shuttleworth
Science
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile” – Albert Einstein
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way” – Nikola Tesla
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation” – Charles Darwin
“If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance” – Orville Wright
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder” – Albert Einstein
Management
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” – Lee Iacocca
“A key to achieving success is to assemble a strong and stable management team” – Vivek Wadhwa
“We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all” – Wangari Maathai
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people” – John D. Rockefeller
“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out” – Stephen Covey
“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don’t interfere as long as the policy you’ve decided upon is being carried out” – Ronald Reagan
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall” – Stephen R. Covey
“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it . . . ; Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine” – David Ogilvy
“The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work” – Agha Hasan Abedi
Sports
“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was” – Muhammad Ali
“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose”– Ernie Banks
“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability” – Bruce Jenner
“Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her”– Mia Hamm
“I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat”– Tom Landry
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose”– Andre Agassi
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team”– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“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
“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you”– Arnold Palmer
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them”– Michael Jordan
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get”– Michael Phelps
“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there”– Venus Williams
It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters”– Evander Holyfield
“Winning never grows old” – Roger Federer
After so many profound words, there is no need for a conclusion………we are ever evolving….
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