“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer
“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”
Walter Cronkite
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
J.P. Morgan
“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
Joel Spolsky, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
Reid Hoffman
“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not …
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John Kenneth Galbraith
“You manage things; you lead people.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”
Carlos Ghosn
“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”
Jason Cohen
“When people talk, listen completely.”
Ernest Hemingway
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”
John Rampton
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
Rosalynn Carter
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”
Brian Tracy
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp
“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”
Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder LinkedIn
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”
Lakshmi Mittal
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”
Arianna Huffington
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”
Adena Friedman
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs
“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”
Jeff Bezos
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Mark Pincus
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“To add value to others, one must first value others.”
John C. Maxwell
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”
Michael Arrington
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”
Anonymous
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
Larry Page
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison
I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”
Jill Konrath
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
Stephen Hawking
“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”
Larry Ellison
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
Bill Gates
“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”
Ray Kroc
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
“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.”
Sam Walton
“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”
Henry Ford
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
Max De Pree
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”
Roger Staubach
“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and …
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Fabrizio Moreira
“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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Mark Parker
“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.
Sun Tzu, Ancient Chinese Military Strategist, Writer, and Philosopher
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
Josiah Charles Stamp
“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”
Lolly Daskal, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and Author
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
Elon Musk
“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn
“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”
Suze Orman
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vidal Sassoon
“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
Drew Houston
“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
Peter Drucker
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn
“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
Jim Rohn
“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”
Karl Pearson
“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
George S. Patton Jr., former US Army General during World War II
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook and Founder of LeanIn.org
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”
Edward Rickenbacker
“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”
Bob Parsons
“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”
Reid Hoffman
“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford
“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
Chris Dixon
“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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Sara Blakely
“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”
Henry W. Longfellow
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
Vince Lombardi
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley, Newscaster for NBC and ABC
“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone, Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
“In a world thats changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther
The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”
Rob Kalin
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill
“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.”
Margaret Wheatley
“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”
Peter Drucker
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill
“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”
Derren Brown
“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”
Kyle Bragger
“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”
Bill Owens
“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”
Edward Rickenbacker
“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”
Steve Jobs
“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King
“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”
David Ogilvy
“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”
Sidney Sheldon, Author
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
Steve Jobs
“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”
Chris Grosser
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
Steve Jobs
“You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If youre not passionate enough from the start, youll never stick …
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Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Dale Carnegie
“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”
Paul Rand
“Being good is good business.”