“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

“Being good is good business.”

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

“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.”

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s …
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“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“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.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they …
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“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”

“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”

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

“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“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.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“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.”

“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

“Great things in business are never done by one person. Theyre done by a team of people.”

“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.” 

“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”