“The more you invest in your mission, the more profits your business will produce. We are living proof of this. Not such a bad formula, huh?”
DAN GILBERT
“I try to be what I really am and not what people would like me to be. There is a certain peace that comes with that. My reputation is truly my own.”
LEONARDO DEL VACCHIO
“Maintain a culture of respect”
ERIC SCHMIDT
“I find it awe-inspiring that there are an infinite number of ways to improve the world through business. Providing better products and services, or less expensive ones, or more accessible ones, all makes people happier. That’s what it’s all about.”
MARTINE ROTHBLATT
“If you have the emotional makeup (you can develop it), you don’t care what the experts are saying”
CARL ICAHN
“Curiosity has kept me young as I have grown older”
LEX WEXNER
“Delivering newspapers I had a lot of elderly customers, so I would always put the newspaper in between the screen door and the door – that caring made me different, made me better than the last paperboy.”
SEAN “DIDDY” COMBS
“No matter how small a project you work on, and no matter what it is, put your heart and soul and sense of responsibility.”
FRANK GEHRY
“We are better employees when we stop trying to be two people and bring our whole self to work”
SHERYL SANDBERG