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353 Business Executive Quotes

…In the real world you have to deserve success before you can be given a chance to succeed, and it is not really just about the being as much as it is about the doing.

Real world Deserve success Chance
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Luck is simply opportunity meeting preparation and preparation on my side meant a lot of hard work.

Luck Simply opportunity Meeting preparation Hard work
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I believe that if you are lucky enough to hold a senior role in a significant company in Africa, you have an obligation.

Believe Lucky Senior role Significant company
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You don’t become CEO of a bank so that you can earn money and leave it. There is far more to it than that.
Don't become Earn money Far more
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Work harder than your peers and seek guidance through mentorship programs, reading and listening.
Work harder Seek guidance Mentorship programs
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You have to present a picture of the future that is beyond profitability and is appealing to people who seek impact.

Present A picture Future Beyond profitability
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If you can’t build a company that outworks a set of core values or a company purpose that speaks to something that deeply matters to people, then it is difficult to inspire and lead them.

Build Company Core values Purpose
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As leaders, we need to think carefully about the stories we tell and how they tie into what matters to the workforce.

As leaders Think carefully Stories Tell
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You can accomplish with kindness what you cannot accomplish with force. Create a kinder world as you start performing acts of random kindness!

Can accomplish Kindness Force Create
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I studied veterinary medicine but I had the vision to be in a board room. What you study now shouldn’t restrict your goals.

Veterinary medicine Vision Board room Your goal
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To start my career journey, the following process helped me; set a vision, have an aspiration, set a goal.

Career journey Vision An aspiration Goal
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Find your role models in your specified field, extracting different qualities from them to form yours

Role models Extracting Qualities
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One of the critical elements of success as you start your career is the ability to invent and reinvent yourself.

Critical element Success Your career Invent
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Men and women of vision, conviction and character are required to man key portfolios especially Finance, Petroleum and Power.

Men Women Conviction Character
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We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas, chase ideas and not to be what I call a caretaker of an asset.

Want people Entrepreneurs Ideas Caretakers
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You’ll sacrifice a lot of things in the early part of your career to be successful, but to be ahead of your competitors, you have to work hard.

Sacrifice Your career Be successful Ahead
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Many people may say that luck is important, but I think you create your own luck by working hard to ensure you don’t miss opportunities.

Many people Luck Important Working hard
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I stopped focusing on people being different, and I started treating everyone the same way.

Stopped focusing People Different Treating
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If you want to grow in the fixed asset space and you want assets which is clear, I think if you want to be big in this commodities space, you need to buy assets.

Grow Fixed asset Commodities space
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Think about what you're passionate about. I did not learn something early enough: if I could go back, I'd tell the younger me that there's a big difference between loving to work and loving the work.

Passionate about Learn something Go back
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You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.

Have to Choose Doing good Well
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That has always been the objective of Apple: to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, 'How did I live without this?'

Objective Apple Really enrich People's lives
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It's not what Apple and Beats are doing today. It's what we believe pairing the two together can produce for the future.

Doing today Believe Pairing Can produce
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I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.

Subscribe View Some people Industry
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We don't collect a lot of your data and understand every detail about your life. That's just not the business that we are in.

Collect Your data Understand Your life
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Our values are that we do think that people have a right to privacy. And that our customers are not our products.

Our value Think People Privacy
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It gives me a lot of energy to talk to developers or meet students in classrooms who are using our technology to help learn faster and better. Watching them pursue their passion.

Developers Meet students Classrooms Technology
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The reality is, is that we love competition, at Apple. We think it makes us all better. But we want people to invent their own stuff.

The reality Love competition Better Want people
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To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

Given Much Expected Believe
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I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

Learned Focus Running Company
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We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.

Think coding Every school Important Kind
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The most important thing is, Do you have the courage to admit that you're wrong? And do you change? The most important thing to me as a CEO is that we keep the courage.

Important thing Courage Admit Wrong
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At one point in time, you had to choose, 'Do you want to do consumer or enterprise?' But the reality today is a bit different: Enterprises are a collection of consumers.

Do consumer Enterprise Reality today Collection
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Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Culture Excellence Unique Special
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We have to make sure, at Apple, that we stay true to focus, laser focus - we know we can only do great things a few times, only on a few products

Make sure Stay true Focus Do great
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I think two people with strong points of view can appreciate each other even more.

Think Two people Strong point Appreciate
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Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it's just a job, and life is too short for that.

Work takes Meaning Pointed Right direction
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You can focus on things that are barriers or you can focus on scaling the wall or redefining the problem.

Can focus Barriers Redefining Problem
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I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's become so integrated and integral to our lives, you wouldn't think about leaving home without it.

Best consumer Product ever Feel Leaving home
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Our goal has never been to make the most. It's always been to make the best.

Our goal Never Always Make
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Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got.

Life Fragile Guaranteed Tomorrow
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Let your joy be in your journey - not in some distant goal.
Your joy Journey Distant goal
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If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.

You embrace Are limitless Universe World
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I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

People remember Good Decent man Success
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You have to train your people properly, and let them know the values that you stand for.

You have Train People properly The value
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The essence of today is about inculcating our values in the new set of graduates that we are bringing on board.

The essence Today About inoculating Our values
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You have been trained to be professionals and leaders, who will make the difference in any area of the bank you are deployed to..

You have Trained Professionals Leaders
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You are undergoing today’s graduation not because we want to do you a favor, but because you emerged successful among thousands of Nigerians that sat for the same examination.

Undergoing Today's graduation A favor Among thousands
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You have to train people on the kind of understanding that they must bring to bear when they are coming to the real world and the workplace, in particular.

Train people Understanding Must bring Real world
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Slow down and enjoy your time at the university. If you are not sure about something, ask questions. When in difficulty, don’t give up.

Slow down Your time University Ask questions
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