About The Book

This book is a must-read if you want to start thinking like a winner. You must learn from those people's successes and failures at the top of their fields today or those who have been pioneers in the past. This book is a concise model written by George Ilian, an author of 18 books, which will help you know some world leaders intimately.

  • Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop you strengths. When you go from hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. – Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. – Steve Jobs
  • Life is not fair; get used to it. – Bill Gates
  • Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
  • Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey
  • Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. – Elon Musk
  • You have to trust in something- your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. – Steve Jobs
  • Giving up is the greatest failure – Jack Ma
  • The question I ask myself like almost every day is, “Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?” – Mark Zuckerberg
  • People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? – Bill Gates
  • Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey
  • Books were my pass to personal freedom. I discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. – Oprah Winfrey
  • I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. – Elon Musk
  • Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes…the ones who see things differently – they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.  – Steve Jobs
  • A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa. – Mark Zuckerberg
  • We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. – Bill Gates
  • Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds and when they grow up they will change the world. – Jack Ma
  • Resilience is not the ability to bounce back from hardship – it’s the ability to fight through it, learn from it and come out of it a better person. – Jack Ma
  • Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me. – Steve Jobs
  • The great discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merley changing his attitude. – Oprah Winfrey
  • What I know is that if you do that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come. – Oprah Winfrey
  • Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. - Oprah Winfrey
  • Screw it, just do it. – Richard Branson
  • A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance – Tony Robbins
  • What we learn from history is that people don’t learn from history – Warren Buffett
  • No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. –Warren Buffett
  • There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult - Warren Buffett
  • It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results. - Warren Buffett
  • It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. - Warren Buffett
  • The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the act that you can do something, you can do it as long as you really believe 100%. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.  - Arnold Schwarzenegger
  • In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
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