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“There are two keys to life: 1. Don’t tell everyone your secrets”.  - Cal Bigosh

“Things that don't quite make sense can be our most valuable tools." - David Wilson, Director, the Museum of Jurassic Technology

“What keeps us awake is the fact that we can think the turnaround is going pretty good and then lose a billion in a quarter." - Tom LaSorda, Chrysler's COO

“Genius is an African who dreams up snow.’ - Vladimir Nabokov

“Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it”.  - Irving Berlin

“Try a lot of things to find all the dead ends, and learn from them." - Bill Gross, Founder, Idealab

“Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.” - Lou Reed

“The sexy cable TV channels don’t expand our horizons, don’t make us better people and don’t come in clearly enough”. - Bill Maher

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is, ‘Who do we intend to be? That’s the business we’re in. The question one.” - Max De Pree, former CEO of Herman Miller.

"Focus clearly on what can go wrong." - Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Brain Surgeon
 
"Innovation is all about people. It is about the roles people can play, the hats they can put on." - Tom Kelley, general manager of Ideo

“Creativity can cause a lot of confusion." - Markus Mettler, Cofounder, BrainStore

“Opposition helps. Kites rise against the wind, rather than with it” - John Neal

And finally...

“Watch out for emergencies, they are your big chance”. - Fritz Reiner




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“The language of Nelson Mandela's tribe, Xhosa, has a word that perfectly sums up the truth of life: Ubuntu.  In English, it translates as "I am because you are."

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