The secret of great people is often passed down by their words. Here is a great list of inspirational quotes from some of the best CEOs of all time. I believe that you will extract value from them and make them a part of you.

• A common question often asked in business is "why?". That's a good question, but an equally fair question, "why not?" — Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO.

• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to destroy it. If you think about it, then you will do things differently. — Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.

• A person must be strong enough to admit his mistakes and smart enough to profit from them and correct them. — John Maxwell, Chief Executive Officer John Maxwell

• Remembering that you are going to die is the easiest, but to avoid falling into the trap, think that you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. — Steve Jobs, Apple CEO.

• The world is changing very quickly. When you try to do something new and break the old, you make enemies. I am proud that I have so many of them. — Rupert Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox.

• If you are changing the world, you are working on important things. You are happy when you get up in the morning. — Larry Page, CEO of Google.

• For me, business is not about suits or nice shareholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on what matters most. — Sir Richard Branson, CEO of the Virgin Group.

• The advantage of information technology is that it enables people to do what they want to do. It allows people to be creative. It allows people to be productive. This allows people to know what they think and what they can learn. — Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft.

• I am responsible for this company. I stand for results. I know that the CEO should be the moral leader of the company... I think high standards are good, but it's about performance and integrity. Here is what you should do. — Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric.

• It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow them - what you want and where you want to go. — Robert Iger, CEO of Walt Disney

• There are many things that go into creating success. I don't like doing just what I like to do. I like doing things that make the company successful. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities. — Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Computers.

• Be dedicated to your work. Believe in him more than others. — Sam Walton, CEO of Wal-Mart.

• Our mission is to make the world more open and sociable. We do it by giving people the power to share anything and communicate with anyone, no matter where they are. — Mark Zuckerberg, CEO

• In reality, we all compete only with ourselves, and have no control over the actions of others. — Pete Cashmore, CEO of Mashable.

• I always did what I wasn't ready to do. I think at this moment you are growing. When there are moments like, "Wow, I'm not sure I can do this," that's the breakthrough you're living through. — Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO

• Show me someone without their ego and I'll show you a loser. — Donald Trump, CEO of the Trump Organization

• Come forward in the lead and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge you and which they are not ready to accept. — Frederick Smith, FedEx CEO

• The only enemy of any company, including McDonald's, is complacency. If you focus on the requests and needs of consumers, you can achieve any results. — Jim Skinner, McDonald's CEO

• Smarter is always the answer. — Samuel J Palmisano, CEO of IBM

• I've always hated litigation. We need people to invent their own things. — Tim Cook, Apple CEO.

• Diversification and globalization are the key to the future. — Fujio Mitarai, Canon CEO

• If you say you never had a chance, you may not have taken it. — Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks

• The government should support and protect its key industries through good policies, not what good politicians sometimes do. — Gordon Nixon, CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada

• As an entrepreneur, you should feel like you can jump out of a plane because you are sure you will grab a bird in midair. — Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO

• Whenever you innovate, be prepared to be called crazy. — Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO

• The term "too many to fail" should be cut from our lexicon. — Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase

• Don't compare yourself to anyone in this world, if you do, you will offend yourself. — Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft

• Employers hire on an as needed basis and are still not ready for employees until the demand for their business is truly needed. — Jeffrey Jorres, Manpower CEO

• I don't think there are any other qualities, so essential to the success of any kind is the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. — John D. Rockefeller, CEO of Standard Oil

It's been three years since I made the leap from a successful accountant to an entrepreneur.

Before I took this leap, I read quotes from successful leaders to motivate myself.

Here are some quotes that inspired me then and some new ones that inspire me now.

Whether you're planning to start your own business or have been running your own company for a while, you can learn a lot from the world's most successful CEOs.

This list includes the best advice from leaders about success, working with your team, becoming a leader, working as a leader, and working with clients as a leader.

Each quote helped me become a better leader than I was before.

On Success: Brian Chesky, Airbnb

“When you start your own company, it's more like an art than a science because you don't know anything. Instead of solving profile problems, try to solve something deeply personal for yourself. Everything will be perfect if you are an ordinary person and just solve your own problem in a way that can help millions of other people.”

On Success: John Stumpf, Wells Fargo

“I never prepared to be a leader. I have always prepared to be a good team member, a good colleague.”

On success: Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz

“Every time you make a hard, right decision, you get a little braver, and every time you make an easy, wrong decision, you get a little cowardly. If you are a leader, these choices will result in your company becoming either brave or cowardly.”

On Success: Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard

“To build a great company, which is the job of a leader, you need to resist social thinking.”

On success: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

“My goal was never to start a company. A lot of people misunderstand this as if I don't care about revenue, income, and other things. But for me, not being just a company means something different – ​​creating something that makes a big difference in the world around us.”

On working with your team: Andrea Jung, Grameen America

“Talent is the top priority for a leader. It seems to you that the most important thing is vision and strategy, but in fact, it is much more important to find the right people.

On working with your team: Taso Du Val, Toptal

“Teaching your employees something new creates an ongoing bond, and they will respect you for it. If you can achieve this right in the interview, then you will surely attract the smartest people. Money doesn't mean much to most of the smartest people in the world - they want to develop their minds, not their wallets. If you demonstrate to employees that they will develop intellectually along their career path and economically during their time with the company, then they will want to work with you.”

On working with your team: Gary Hamel, Gary Hamel Consulting

“Nothing slows down employee engagement quite like raw, cold, and centralized power. In most companies, the power hierarchy is built down from the CEO. Employees are not only excluded from the decision-making process, they even lack the power to rebel against self-centered and tyrannical leaders.”

On working with your team: Ann M. Mulcahy, Xerox

“Employees who believe that their management cares about them as whole individuals are not just an employee - they are more productive, more satisfied, more joyful. Satisfied employees lead to satisfied customers, which in turn leads to profitability.”

About working with your team: Jack Ma, Alibaba

“The lessons I have learned from the dark days of Alibaba are that you must bring value, innovation and vision to your team. Besides, as long as you don't give up, you always have a chance. And when you're young, you need to be very focused and rely on your brain rather than your strength."

On becoming a leader: Elon Musk, SpaceX

“The path to the CEO's office should not run through either the CFO's office or the marketing department. It should run through the engineering and design department."

On Becoming an Executive: Denis Morrison, Campbell Soup Company

"If you want a leadership position, you should prepare for it with revenge."

On becoming a leader: Chanda Koshar, ICICI Bank

“I still believe that when you start, you should have a big dream – a big goal – but it is equally important to move towards it step by step. So, you know, to be honest, if you had asked me this when I started my job as a trainee manager in 1984, I don't even know if I could really think then that I could become a real leader.

On becoming a leader: Indra Nui, PepsiCO

“Just because you have become a leader, you should not think that you are already settled. You need to constantly learn, improve your thinking, your ways of organizing. I never forget it."

On becoming a leader: Carlos Ghosn, Nissan

"As a leader, I have to worry about the short term, the medium term, and the long term."

On Becoming an Executive: Tim Cook, Apple

"I am who I am, and that's what I focus on as an Apple executive."

On Becoming a Leader: Alexa Von Tobel, LearnVest

“As a wife, daughter, friend, and founder and leader of LearnVest, my daily schedule remains very simple. But I learned how to carefully manage my own time.”

On becoming a leader: Travis Kalanick, Uber

“As an entrepreneur, I try to push boundaries. Press the gas pedal."

On becoming a leader: Michael Gokturk, Payfirma

"The hearts of a successful team beat in unison."

On becoming a leader: Larry Ellison, Oracle

"When you innovate, you have to be prepared for everyone around you to tell you you're crazy."

On becoming a leader: Marissa Meyer, Yahoo!

“I always did things I wasn’t quite ready for. It seems to me that this is how a person grows. When that 'Wow, I'm not sure I'm ready for this' moment comes up, but you get through those moments, that's how you forge ahead."

• Virtue I call the skill of actions that are useful to the public good (A.N. Radishchev)
• It is not knowledge that makes you a good manager or leader, but what you are (I. Adizes)
• And each of us who assumes that he can lead others must constantly and intensely study (A. V. Lunacharsky)
• The task of successful management is to make the organization efficient and effective in the short and long term (I. Adizes)
• The “duck theory” of management: a duck floating on water seems calm and unruffled, but its paws work very, very quickly under water (I. Adizes)
• The most significant thing a manager can do is hire new employees who are fit for the job (Lee Iacocca, "The Career of a Manager")
• Most managers are too busy to think (Peter Senge)
• “Every morning I looked at myself in the mirror and asked: “If today was the last day of my life, would I like to do what I do today? And if the answer for many days in a row was “no”, I knew that I needed to change something” (Steve Jobs)
• When there is hard work, I always entrust it to a lazy person. He will definitely find some easy way to do it (Walter Chrysler)
• Anyone who wants to see the results of his work immediately should become a shoemaker (Albert Einstein)
• A good decision made too late is a mistake (Lee Iacocca)
• The key to business success is innovation, which in turn is born out of creativity (James Goodnight)
• I am either a fox or a lion. The whole secret of management lies in knowing when to be this or that (Napoleon Bonaparte)
• The art of government is not to let people grow old in their position (Napoleon Bonaparte)
• It is easier to hold the reins than the reins of government (Kozma Prutkov)
• Even the best manager sometimes finds himself in the position of a boy with a huge dog on a leash. He watches where she pulls the leash and leads her that way (Lee Iacocca)
• A good leader should always know what is happening in the company. You can't stay isolated in your office (Jack Trout, "Big Problems for Big Brands")
• The most important thing we do is hire great people (Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO)
• All management ultimately comes down to stimulating the activity of other people (Lee Iacocca)
• It's a shame when your dreams come true for others! (M. Zhvanetsky)
• An effective leader focuses on opportunities, not problems (P. Drucker, economist, publicist, management theorist)
• Any change brings with it new opportunities. Therefore, the organization's response to change should not be to wait, but to increase activity (J Welch, former CEO of General Electric)
• If there is no decision maker in the team, then decisions will never be made (P. Drucker, economist, publicist, management theorist)
• The real story of Facebook is that we have been working hard all this time. Pretty boring story, isn't it? All these six years we have been sitting at computers and writing codes (M. Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook)
• Management quality indicator - ordinary people doing unusual things (P. Drucker)
• What a pity that our managers cannot be bought at their true value and sold at the price they value themselves! (Malcolm Forbes)
• Manager: a person who makes quick decisions - and sometimes the right ones (Elbert Hubbard)

Thoughts, aphorisms, quotes. Business, career, management Dushenko Konstantin Vasilyevich

Manager

Manager

See also "Businessman" (p. 18); "Control. Leadership" (p. 259); "Work with people. Teamwork "(p. 307)

Managerial revolution.

The title of an American publicist's book James Burnham (1905–1987),

Rarely (perhaps never) did the most important social institution—a new layer of leaders—emerge as quickly as management did in the mid-twentieth century. Few institutions in the history of mankind have so quickly proved their indispensability; and even more rarely has a new institution met with so few opponents, so little confusion, and so little controversy.

Peter Drucker(b.1909),

Technocrats are the new universal clergy. Their religion is business success; their criteria for virtue are production growth and profits.

John Galbraith(b.1908),

In any business, managers are the most valuable and rarest resource.

Peter Drucker

The science of management is about the same stage that medicine was when it finally came to the conclusion that the owner of a pharmacy would not necessarily be a good doctor.

Laurence Appley(b.1904),

American management specialist

To make the work more successful, you need to better train managers and keep them smaller.

William Woodside American manager

Good management and entrepreneurship are not synonymous.

James Hayes(1895–1971), president of the American Managers Association

A corporate manager is not the same as a profit-seeking capitalist. His goal is more a career in an organization that gives power and high position than profit or great wealth.

Adolf Berl(1895–1971), American diplomat

Out of every 100 start-ups, seventy-five fail before they even last five years, and the leading cause of death is mismanagement.

Peter Drucker

There is no bad business or bad management. There is only management that is bad for this particular business.

Arnold Goldstein,

President of a consulting firm (USA)

Management is not business management - just like, say, medicine is not obstetrics. (…) Running a chain of retail stores differs from running a Catholic diocese (…) not as much as store workers and clergy believe (…). 90% or so of the problems of all organizations are the same. As for the remaining 10%, there are no more differences between commercial and non-profit organizations than between different business sectors, for example, between a transnational bank and a factory of children's toys.

Peter Drucker

Many equate good management with excellence. This is mistake. If perfection could be achieved, there would be no need for management.

James Hayes

Wisdom is the ability to give up perfection at the right time.

Vladimir Horowitz(1904–1989),

American pianist

I am a very good person. I'm just a very bad wizard.

American writer Frank Baum(1856–1919) (in The Wizard of Oz)

To become a manager, you have to start from the bottom; there are no exceptions to this rule.

Henry Block, American manager

One who thinks that he looks ridiculous in the saddle cannot command a cavalry brigade.

John Pierce American businessman

Management is the ability to see a company not as it is, but as it can become.

John Tits, American businessman

An effective manager lives in the present – ​​but focuses on the future.

James Hayes

There are times when even the best manager finds himself in the position of a little boy with a huge dog on a leash. He watches where she pulls the leash and leads her in that direction.

Lee Iacocca(b.1924), American manager

A really good manager cares not so much about his own career as about the careers of the people who work for him.

H. S. M. Burns(1900–1971),

President of Shell

A good manager is one who knows how to ask the right questions.

Robert Heller(b.1933),

publisher of Management Today magazine (USA)

MANAGER: a person who makes quick decisions - and sometimes the right ones.

Elbert Hubbard(1859–1915),

American writer

Only the paranoid survive.

American businessman Andrew Grove(b.1936) in response to the question of how he managed to achieve such success in the Intel Corporation

The best manager is the one who has the guts to pick a good performer and the smarts not to get involved.

The ideal manager is a person who knows exactly what he cannot do and looks for the right people to do it.

Philip Rosenthal(b.1916),

German politician and entrepreneur

The talent of a manager is to make a decision quickly and find a person who will do all the work.

John Garland Pollard(1871–1937),

American lawyer

A manager is a person who never puts off until tomorrow what he can entrust to someone today.

An outstanding prime minister must have the zest for life of an idle man and the zeal of a workhorse.

Walter Bagjot(1826–1877),

British economist and political scientist

A manager should not be in charge of anything for more than five or six years. Otherwise, he fizzles out, loses his former interest in the cause and becomes a prisoner of his own patterns, which were revolutionary ideas when he led the organization.

Robert Townsend(1920–1998),

American businessman

Never put an inventor at the head of a company. You will never make him stop thinking and come up with something marketable.

Royal Little, American businessman

The office is a great place to do current work, but not the best place to think.

W. E. Azzell, American businessman

An ordinary worker goes home when working hours are over. The manager leaves when the job is done - or takes her home.

Mary and Eric Allison,

A manager is only as good as his health.

Geoffrey Archer(b.1940),

English writer and politician

In a born boss, all ailments begin on Friday evening and end on Monday morning.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson(1909–1993),

English publicist

The King of France may die, but he cannot be ill.

Louis XVIII(1755–1824)

shortly before his death, when doctors insisted that he withdraw from

in celebration of St. Louis

I will stay until I get tired. As long as Britain needs me, I will never tire.

Margaret Thatcher(b.1925),

British Prime Minister

We know better the motives, customs, and innermost aspects of the life of the primitive tribes of New Guinea than the inhabitants of the offices of Uniliver.

Roy Lewis and Rosemary Stuart,

American management specialists

When you meet most corporate presidents, you immediately understand what President Woodrow Wilson meant when, after living for several months in the White House, he said: "No one looks here in the evening."

J. Elliott Janney

80 percent of our managers would not be able to sincerely answer the seemingly simplest questions: “What is my job? What is really important in it? How well do I do it?

Edward Deming,

American management consultant

You talk so much about what you need, but why do you need yourself?

Rabbi Shneur Zalman(1747–1812),

Hasidic teacher

Success is when you have made so much money that you can hire a professional manager to explain to you why you haven't made more.

From the "Dictionary of Unreliable Definitions" by L. L. Levinson

A manager is a person smart enough to run your business and wise enough not to have one of his own.

Management, like swimming, cannot be learned from books.

Henry Mintzberg(b.1939),

Canadian management specialist

Listen and learn.

Motto Franklin Roosevelt(1882–1945)

during the first hundred days of his reign

Management has something in common with medicine. He creates problems as much as he solves them.

Warren Bennis(b.1925), American economist

ASPIRIN DOCTOR: A manager who tries to solve every problem in the same way as a doctor who prescribes aspirin for every illness he does not know.

Harold S. Hook, American manager

Many people confuse bad management with bad luck.

Elbert Hubbard(1859–1915),

American writer

Only those companies with which you are not intimately familiar are well managed.

Fred Vanderschmidt, American manager

There are extremely successful companies in the United States, as well as extremely well-paid managers. The main thing is not to confuse one with the other.

Philip Wrigley(1861–1932),

American businessman

The salary of directors of large companies is not a market reward for their achievements. Often this is just a manifestation of sincere friendly feelings for oneself.

John Galbraith(b.1908),

American economist and diplomat

It has always been a mystery to me why a person who receives 250 thousand dollars a year needs additional financial incentives to do his job well.

Irving Bluestone(b.1917),

American economist

Most managers eventually become what they hate the most - bureaucrats.

Alvin Toffler(b.1928),

American sociologist

industrial bureaucrats.

John Galbraith about corporate managers

There are only two types of coaches - those that are fired and those that will be fired.

Ken Leffler,

American basketball coach

Many managers retired without leaving their posts.

Peter Drucker

Timely retirement has saved many managers from ulcers and helped their wives get ulcers.

Required managers no older than 35 years with forty years of experience.

From the book by E. Mackenzie "14,000 phrases ..."

Don't settle for being captain of a sinking ship.

Wiesław Brudzinski(b.1920),

Polish writer

A person who has not become a boss by the age of 46 will never be useful for anything.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

"A manager is a person who must survive" http: //www. e-xecutive. ru/directorsadvices/managers/article_267/Interview with Anatoly Karachinsky, President of the IBS Group Curriculum vitae: Anatoly Karachinsky was born on July 12, 1959 in Moscow. In 1981 he graduated from the Moscow Institute