More Cool Business Quotes

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

You do not merely want to be the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Jerry Garcia

Diverse groups of problem solvers—groups of people with diverse tools—consistently outperformed groups of the best and the brightest. If I formed two groups, one random (and therefore diverse) and one consisting of the best individual performers, the first group almost always did better. … Diversity trumped ability.

Scott Page, The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies Diversity

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

Wayne Gretzky


This is so simple it sounds stupid, but it is amazing how few oil people really understand that you only find oil if you drill wells. You may think you’re finding it when you’re drawing maps and studying logs, but you have to drill.

Source: The Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian O & G wildcatter

All courtesy of Tom Peters

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