Manager

🇺🇸Peter Thiel

Business

b. 1967

"It’s good to test yourself and develop your talents and ambitions as fully as you can and achieve greater success; but I think success is the feeling you get from a job well done, and the key thing is to do the work."

🇬🇧Alex Ferguson

Medicine

b. 1941

"My greatest challenge is not what's happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that."

"The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage."

🇺🇸Ted Malloch

Business

b. 1952

"Profit doesn’t appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles."

"When a firm chooses to allocate its most valuable resources away from clients and to young stars, the economic consequences are real and visible."

🇺🇸Satya Nadella

Business

b. 1967

"We have a lot of work to do. We have 90% of PC share and 14% of total device share. We get that,"

🇺🇸Marvin Bower

Technology

1903–2003

"Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered — what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making."

🇺🇸Lee Iacocca

Business

1924–2019

"I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it."

🇺🇸Melinda M. Snodgrass

Science

b. 1951

"Magic is only useful against those with an affinity to magic."

🇺🇸Henry Gantt

Technology

1861–1919

"Engineers were the only members of the community "who understand the needs of the nation, desires of the workmen, and the power of the productive forces"

🇺🇸Gordon Bell

Technology

1934–2024

"A Broadband Cable for TV is like a sewer pipe that in principle can carry gas, water, and waste: it is easy to get all that shit in there, but hard to separate it out again."

🇺🇸Jack Welch

Business

1935–2020

"Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur."

"an individual who, because of his training, experience, and competence, is employed to develop and expand the assets and realizations of owners."

🇨🇦Don Tapscott

Business

b. 1947

"Every ten minutes, like the heartbeat of the bitcoin network, all the transactions conducted are verified, cleared, and stored in a block which is linked to the preceding block, thereby creating a chain."

🇺🇸John Glenn

Politics

1921–2016

"John Glenn School of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University"

🇺🇸Tim Cook

Business

b. 1960

"If you want me to only do things for ROI reasons then you should get out of this stock."

🇺🇸Irving Thalberg

Music

1899–1936

"Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it."