I am looking for a list of quotes and feelings about how people,
entrepreneurs and organisations feel when they have a new idea, or a
breakthrough, or start their own company - feelings of elation and
excitement that something new and exciting is beginning |
Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
02 May 2005 13:30 PDT
Hi dtnl42,
Please take a look at these quotations and let me know if I'm on the
right track. Thanks.
"Let's drive not just breakthroughs in new products, but new ways to
give more and more people access to these inventions and their
benefits. This is a broad and important mission, and I believe we all
have a part to play in it."
- Bill Gates, American entrepreneur and founder of Microsoft Co., b.1955
"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human
heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the
brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food,
sleep, friends, love, everything."
- Nikola Tesla, Croatian born American inventor, 1856-1943
"An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? (made a
call from Washington to Pennsylvania with Alexander Graham Bell's
telephone, patented on 7 March 1876)"
- Rutherford B. Hayes
"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every
utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind,
evolved from a very simple beginnings."
- Robert Collier, American motivational author, 1885-1950
"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it!
Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make
them!"
- Madam C.J. Walker, creator of a popular line of African-American
hair care products and America's first black female millionaire
"Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no
matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're
generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is
that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make."
- Donald Trump, real estate and entertainment mogul
"Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly
what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first
shop taught me business is not financial science; it's about trading:
buying and selling."
- Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
"I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic:
success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding
a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of
contributing to the world."
- Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business
there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise
dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out
their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce
and execute the business plan."
- Bill Rancic, winner on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"
"The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so
far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the
potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of
business--but it's a whole lot more fun, don't you think?"
- Bill Rancic, winner on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"
"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember,
the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love
to do, be the best at doing it."
- Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies
"We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm."
- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation
"Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning."
- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation
"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of
the service it might give others... I find out what the world needs,
then I proceed to invent."
- Thomas Edison
"An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew
hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.
- Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming."
- Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Enterprises
"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.
It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few
who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next
week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's
"When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the
choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to
overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone.
Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse
to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be
rested from failure."
- Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
"If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week
earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But
if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic."
? Barry Jones
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born."
? Ron Brown
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
? Thomas A. Edison
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave
men, or they are no better than dreams."
- Emerson
"I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the
best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world.
I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I
fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts."
? Alice Potter
"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my
inventions come by accident; they came by work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
"I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I
love to keep it near me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks
my heart."
- Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men In A Boat
A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he
is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind
and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he
works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past
ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If
we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and
eventful."
? William Morris
"The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks
involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our
plans with confidence."
? Henry Ford
Best regards,
Rainbow
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Clarification of Question by
dtnl42-ga
on
02 May 2005 22:23 PDT
Yes, very close - I need a few more with real emotion - feelings of
great passion, hope and excitement at the start of something brand new
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Request for Question Clarification by
rainbow-ga
on
03 May 2005 03:26 PDT
Hi dtnl42,
I have not found any available quotes specifically reaching the
criteria you are requestiong. Here are some closest ones I could find.
I will keep looking for more.
"Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way."
- Ted Turner (1938 - ) Founder, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
"The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil."
- J.D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937) Founder, Standard Oil
"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
- Sir Richard Branson (1950 - ) CEO, Virgin Group, Ltd.
"Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your
business will take care of itself."
- Sam Walton (1918 - 1992) President and CEO, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
"Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success."
- Michael D. Eisner, (1942 - ) Chairman & CEO of The Disney
Corporation, 1984-present
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you
pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an
important psychological threshold."
- Richard Thalheimer, president, The Sharper Image
"At Wabash, everybody sinks or swims together--everybody, even our
salespeople. They aren't on commission. They participate in the same
compensation system as everybody else."
- Jerry Ehrlich, CEO of Wabash National
"Our philosophy has always been to compete with our competitors in
their backyards. We feel that if we can compete effectively with
Siemens in Germany, then surely we can compete with them in the United
States or the rest of the world. But we have to wage battle on their
home turf."
- William W. George, President and CEO of Medtronic, Inc.
"I try to keep in touch with the details . . . I also look at the
product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important
occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you
understand what's happening."
- Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-
"If only we can give them faith that mountains can be moved, they will
accept the illusion that mountains are moveable, and thus an illusion
may become reality."
- Benito Mussolini, (his strategy for motivating the masses)
"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their
hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example -- and perhaps by
excitement, by having productive ideas to make them feel involved."
- Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-
"Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't
see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become
a commodity and then you die."
- Gary Hirshberg, founder of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts
agree, is by accident. That's where we come in. We're computer
professionals. We cause accidents."
- Nathaniel Borenstein, inventor of MIME
"We as consumers will not tolerate a poor product or service, then why
do we allow and in fact manage and lead a business that allows less
then tolerable product or service to exist?"
- Jonathon J. Salomon
"Once a thought becomes a rumour and a rumour becomes an idea, the idea
becomes a possibility, until the possibility becomes ... reality!"
- Michael Sadler
"The giants of the race have been men of concentration who have struck
sledgehammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their
purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering
idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose."
- Orsen Swett Marden
"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of
health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and
learning is where the miracle process all begins."
- Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's
not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in
business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?"
- Robert Townsend
"Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you
respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your
ultimate trust."
- John Akers
"We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there."
- Paul Allen
"What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question
imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our
potential?"
- Paul Allen
"In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the
horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a
meaningful way."
- Paul Allen
"I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary
efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question
about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere."
- Paul Allen
"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what
we're getting."
- Stephen R. Covey
"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I
can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the
knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a
way that leads to collective organizational success."
- Stephen R. Covey
"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a
great idea that inspires no one."
- Mary Kay Ash
"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think
they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you
believe, remember, you can achieve."
- Mary Kay Ash
"People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any
difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only
as good as the people it keeps."
- Mary Kay Ash
"Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or
her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you
succeed in sales, you will succeed in life."
- Mary Kay Ash
Waiting to hear your views.
Best regards,
Rainbow
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Clarification of Question by
dtnl42-ga
on
03 May 2005 05:59 PDT
Those are fine, thank you
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