Curated Quotes

"The greatest leader is not the one who does the greatest things, but the one who gets people to do the greatest things."

"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change."

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others."

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"No man is free who is not master of himself."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive."

"Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave."

"The seeking of knowledge is obligatory for every Muslim."

"Verily, with hardship comes ease."

"The best among you are those who learn the Quran and teach it."

"Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

"Done is better than perfect."

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"Focus is saying no to the hundred other good ideas."

"Move fast and break things."

"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything."

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."

"First, solve the problem. Then, write the code."

"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand."

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."

"Simplicity is the soul of efficiency."

"In three words I can sum up life: it goes on."

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."