Daily Book Gems

The best way to predict the future is to create it. — Peter Drucker, from the book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter F. Drucker.

Culture eats strategy for breakfast — Peter Drucker, often attributed to him and popularized in business literature, notably referenced in The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett, from the book The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. — Jack Welch, from the book Winning by Jack Welch with Suzy Welch.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination. - Steve Case, quoted in The Third Wave

The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. - Jeff Bezos, The Everything Store

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people - Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self - The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. – Make the Impossible Possible by Bill Strickland

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie's Lifetime Plan for Success by Dale Carnegie

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. – Grind by Michael Kirchman

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. – One Year to a Business That Works by April Lynne

It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. – Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky

Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. – The Five Levels of Leadership by John C. Maxwell

The biggest risk is not taking any risk. – The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get. – The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren Buffett

Business is a combination of war and sport. – The Art of Executive Thinking by André Tchaikovsky