The Leap presents powerful and personal stories from successful entrepreneurs and innovators -- the victories, obstacles, lessons, and characters behind businesses that impact our lives. These people are our celebrities - and this series is your backstage pass.
Through our guests, you'll experience their vision, perseverance, setbacks, and, achievement. And, though we cover some famous icons and mavericks, it's not just the brand names. Some of the most relatable life lessons are from people with lesser-known companies.
So, if you're already in business, in the process of launching a new venture, or sitting in your cubicle dreaming about - someday - taking the Leap, then this program is for you.
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."
George Eliot
"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin
"Every man believes that he has a greater possibility."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
Henry Ford
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
"Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"There's a better way to do it. Find it."
Thomas Edison
"The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is."
Charles M. Schwab
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
Muhammad Ali
"You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning."
Billy Wilder
"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
Beverly Sills
"Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision."
Peter Drucker
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."
Sophia Loren
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas Edison
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway."
John Wayne
"The basest of all things is to be afraid."
William Faulkner
"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement."
Helen Keller
"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."
Carl Sandburg
"Those who believe they can do something are probably right - and so are those who believe they can't."
Unknown
"Zeal will do more than knowledge."
William Hazlitt
"Energy and persistence conquer all things."
Benjamin Franklin
"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
Thomas Edison, responding to reporter asking how it felt to fail 2000 times before successfully inventing the light bulb
"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."
Henry David Thoreau
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
