For the beginning of 2008 – my 20 favorite Quotes

Since 2008 has started and everybody made his or her New Year Resolutions (I made mine in Riga), I want to add my 20 favorite quotes on this Blog. These quotes come from different so called “Business Gurus” and brought me a lot of insight into marketing and working with people...

"Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two - and only two - functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs." --Peter Drucker

"It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel." --James Allen

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." --Peter Drucker

"The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home." --Tom Peters

"Where you've been is not half as important as where you're going." -- Anonymous

"Here is a simple but powerful rule … always give people more than they expect to get." -- Nelson Boswell

"The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -- Albert Einstein

"You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them." -- Walt Disney

"Enough about you … let's hear about me." -- Cynthia Heimel

"You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself." -- Galileo

"The teacher, if indeed wise, doe not bid you to enter the house of their wisdom, but leads you to the threshold of your own mind." -- Kahil Gibran

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Anonymous

"You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts." -- Napoleon Hill

"Success - my nomination for the single most important ingredient is energy well directed. -- Louis Lundborg

"No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought." -- John Stuart Mill

"Any fact not facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." -- Norman Vincent Peale

"The system works … if you work the system." -- Macrae Ross

The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business." -- Michael Gerber

"It's what you learn after you know everything that counts." -- John Wooden

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life." -- Robert Louis Stevenson