"Get it out the door with your name on it!"

" Don't do onto others what you don't want done onto you." (Confucius)

Indra Nooyi: (source: Fortune magazine)
" Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent ... When you assume negative intent, you're angry."

Bloomberg: (source: Fortune magazine)
" First, always ask for the order, and second, when the customer says yes, stop talking."

Mark Hurd: (source: Fortune magazine)
" Good story, but it's hard to look smart with bad numbers."

Larry Page: (source: Fortune magazine)
" Even when we started Google, we thought: ' Oh, we might fail,' and we almost didn't do it.  We had all this internal risk we had just invented. "

Sam Palmisano: (source: Fortune magazine)
" Don't view your career as a linear progression. "

Benjamin Selekman (source: Fortune magazine)
" Don't spend time on things you can't control.  Instead, spend your time thinking about what you can. "

Charlene Begley (source: Fortune magazine)
" Spend a ton of time with your customers. "

Zhang Xin (source: Fortune magazine)
" The best way to lower risk is to specialize: Put the things you love into one portfolio. "

Joanna Shields(source: Fortune magazine)
" Your career is long and the business world is small.  Always act with integrity.  Never take the last dollar off the table. "
" You have to have the intuition to know when to say, ' I'm going to make sure that we walk away feeling like we've both done well.' "

U. Mark Schneider(source: Fortune magazine):
" Become fluent in English; no matter what you are going to do, this will give you an edge. "