Executive Gems

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

     - Jack London

"Don't settle."

- Steve Jobs

"When asked what market research went into the iPad, Mr. Jobs replied: 'None. It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want.' "

-NY Times

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

- David Sarnoff

"The risk is not in standing out, it is by fitting in."

-Seth Godin

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

- William Wallace, Braveheart

"If our attention span constricts to the point where we can only take information in 140-character sentences, then that doesn't bode too well for our future."

- Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, director of Stanford University's Impulse Control Disorders Clinic

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

- Laurence J. Peter

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"I believe there surely is such a thing as truth, but who among us can claim a monopoly? There are those who do, and their own words testify to their intolerance."

- Senator Edward Kennedy