Inspiring quotes on management & leadership.   Napoleon No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.   Esa-Pekka Salonen The main thing is to motivate; to try to release the energies and passion in different individuals in order to make them feel free, to create the illusion that they are actually doing what they are doing out of their own desires and not being led by somebody. That is when the best results happen. In the best possible case, the illusion of freedom becomes true. They are free. — [Esa-Pekka Salonen, Principal Conductor, Los Angeles Philarmonic]   George Washington Carver When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.   Thomas Jefferson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.   Mark Twain A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.   Yogi Berra You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. Next    » »