Isabel Dos Santos is widely regarded as one of the most successful female entrepreneurs. She built up a veritable empire, comprising multinational conglomerates across multiple industries in Angola and abroad. Her tireless efforts have been rewarded with success on many fronts. As a force for good in Angola and other developing countries, Dos Santos has helped to drive the narrative of gender equality at home and abroad.
Predictions Many Times Can Be Wrong
An innovation, which might actually have been successful, isn’t even introduced because market research predicted it would fail.
~ Decoded – The Science Behind Why We Buy by Phil Barden
You Are Not Leading Because of Your Formal Position
Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Is Copying Current Successful Entrepreneurs Sustainable For You?
The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them.
~ Peter Thiel – From the Book “Zero to One – Notes on startups, or how to build the future”
Innovation VS Money: Steve Jobs Quote
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.
~ STEVE JOBS
New Place For a New Ideas and Progress
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
~ CHARLES KETTERING