var quote = new Array(); var author = new Array(); var company = new Array(); quote[1] = "Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the hire wire. This is your moment. Own it."; author[1] = 'Oprah Winfrey, Founder'; company[1] = 'Harpo Entertainment Group'; quote[2] = "All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."; author[2] = 'Ted Turner, Founder'; company[2] = 'CNN'; quote[3] = "What should exist? To me, that’s the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?"; author[3] = 'Paul Allen, Co-founder'; company[3] = 'Microsoft'; quote[4] = "How beautiful it is to excel and the goodness of giving from your heart."; author[4] = 'Robert Mondavi, Founder'; company[4] = 'Robert Mondavi Winery'; quote[5] = "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations."; author[5] = 'Steve Jobs, Co-Founder'; company[5] = 'Pixar Animation Studios and Apple Computer'; quote[6] = "That’s why I ended up leaving school -- because it (Napster) required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it."; author[6] = 'Shawn Fanning, Founder'; company[6] = 'Napster'; quote[7] = "Play by the rules, but be ferocious."; author[7] = 'Phil Knight, Co-Founder'; company[7] = 'Nike, Inc.'; quote[8] = "It’s ok to be crazy, but don’t be insane."; author[8] = 'Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, Founder'; company[8] = 'Sean John'; quote[9] = "The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few."; author[9] = 'Phil Knight, Co-Founder'; company[9] = 'Nike, Inc.'; quote[10] = "Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality."; author[10] = 'Ross Perot, Founder'; company[10] = 'Electronic Data Systems'; quote[11] = "I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers."; author[11] = 'Michael Bloomberg, Founder'; company[11] = 'Bloomberg, LP'; quote[12] = "Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising."; author[12] = 'Milton S. Hershey, Founder'; company[12] = 'Hershey Foods Company'; quote[13] = "Business can be a source of progressive change."; author[13] = 'Jerry Greenfield, Co-Founder'; company[13] = 'Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream'; quote[14] = "If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on."; author[14] = 'Larry Page, Co-Founder'; company[14] = 'Google, Inc.'; quote[15] = "Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves, and by which they are willing to be judged."; author[15] = 'Frederick W. Smith, Founder'; company[15] = 'FDX Corp. later FedEx Corporation'; quote[16] = "We wanted Nike to be the world’s best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour."; author[16] = 'Phil Knight, Co-Founder'; company[16] = 'Nike, Inc.'; quote[17] = "Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul."; author[17] = 'Donna Karan, Founder'; company[17] = 'DK New York'; quote[18] = "Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."; author[18] = 'David Ogilvy, Founder'; company[18] = 'Hewitt, Ogilvy, Benson & Mather later Ogilvy & Mather'; quote[19] = "I know what we do really well. I just try and keep us focused on doing that."; author[19] = 'Jeffrey Katzenberg, Founding Partner'; company[19] = 'DreamWorks, LLC'; quote[20] = "The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the business of our business as it is today is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it."; author[20] = 'Jim Casey, Founder'; company[20] = 'UPS'; quote[21] = "Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn."; author[21] = 'Vera Wang, Founder'; company[21] = 'Vera Wang'; quote[22] = "Every single American needs to have access to health insurance -- full stop."; author[22] = 'Howard Schultz, Founder'; company[22] = 'Starbucks'; quote[23] = "If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It’s a process of innovation."; author[23] = 'Jerry Greenfield, Co-Founder'; company[23] = 'Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream'; quote[24] = "My job is to listen to ideas, maybe cook up a few of my own, and make decisions based on what’s good for the shareholders and for the company."; author[24] = 'Phil Knight, Co-Founder'; company[24] = 'Nike, Inc.'; quote[25] = "Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department."; author[25] = 'David Packard, Co-Founder'; company[25] = 'Hewlett Packard Company'; quote[26] = "What you can’t buy is loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers."; author[26] = 'David Neeleman, Founder'; company[26] = 'JetBlue Airlines'; quote[27] = "The only thing that matters is the bottom line? What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven. The real business of business is building things."; author[27] = 'Edwin Land, Founder and Inventor'; company[27] = 'Polaroid'; quote[28] = "A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."; author[28] = 'Jeff Bezos, Founder'; company[28] = 'Amazon.com'; quote[29] = "I had an idea that I wanted to create an efficient market and a level playing field where everyone had equal access to information. I wanted to give the power of the market back to individuals, not just large corporations."; author[29] = 'Pierre Omidyar, Founder'; company[29] = 'eBay'; quote[30] = "If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just."; author[30] = 'Anita Roddick, Founder'; company[30] = 'Body Shop International'; quote[31] = "We are as passionate about our commitment to our communities as we are about achieving financial success."; author[31] = 'Howard Schultz, Founder'; company[31] = 'Starbucks'; quote[32] = "You can’t be afraid to fail, because that’s when you learn."; author[32] = 'Michael Dell, Founder'; company[32] = 'Dell Computer'; quote[33] = "In unity there is strength. Consider the fragile snowflake that flutters slowly to earth and disintegrates; however, if enough of them stick together they can paralyze an entire city."; author[33] = 'William Rosenberg, Founder'; company[33] = 'Dunkin Donuts'; quote[34] = "Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish."; author[34] = 'Sam Walton, Founder'; company[34] = 'Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.'; quote[35] = "If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful."; author[35] = 'Jeff Bezos, Founder'; company[35] = 'Amazon.com'; quote[36] = "In the early days, I was the advertising department, and I was also the guy who would get the lunch."; author[36] = 'Earl Graves, Founder'; company[36] = 'Black Enterprise Magazine'; quote[37] = "To start a business and run it successfully, you have to like people. You have to care about them."; author[37] = 'Bud Hadfield, Founder'; company[37] = 'Kwik Kopy'; quote[38] = "I think it’s very important that whatever you’re trying to make or sell or teach has to be basically good. A bad product and you know what? You won’t be here in ten years."; author[38] = 'Martha Stewart, Founder'; company[38] = 'Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.'; quote[39] = "As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for."; author[39] = 'James Cash Penney, Founder'; company[39] = 'J.C. Penney'; quote[40] = "Going out on your own should not mean ever going it alone. Ask for help."; author[40] = 'Susan Schreter, Founder'; company[40] = 'TakeCommand'; quote[41] = "I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."; author[41] = 'Oprah Winfrey, Founder'; company[41] = 'Harpo Entertainment Group'; quote[42] = "In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone."; author[42] = 'Bill Gates, Co-Founder'; company[42] = 'Microsoft'; quote[43] = "If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with spirit."; author[43] = 'Oprah Winfrey, Founder'; company[43] = 'Harpo Entertainment Group'; quote[44] = "Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice."; author[44] = 'Akio Morita, Founder'; company[44] = 'Sony Corporation'; quote[45] = "We’ve got thousands of investors counting on us. And we’re a team of thousands of employees all counting on each other. That’s fun."; author[45] = 'Jeff Bezos, Founder'; company[45] = 'Amazon.com'; quote[46] = "A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts."; author[46] = 'Richard Branson, Founder'; company[46] = 'Virgin Group'; quote[47] = "I quickly learned that if I kept at it and plowed right through the rejections I would eventually get somebody to buy my wares."; author[47] = 'Charles Schwab, Founder'; company[47] = 'Charles Schwab Discount Brokerage'; quote[48] = "High expectations are the key to everything."; author[48] = 'Sam Walton, Founder'; company[48] = 'Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.'; quote[49] = "Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."; author[49] = 'Bill Gates, Co-Founder'; company[49] = 'Microsoft'; quote[50] = "Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success."; author[50] = 'Martha Stewart, Founder'; company[50] = 'Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.';