“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”

“Its hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“If youre trying to create a company, its like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Dont let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

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

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

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

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

“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.”

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

“Im a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didnt have the heart to let him down.”

“If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up.”

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

“There is only one boss; The Customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

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

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“Leaders dont inflict pain, they share pain.”

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”

“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”

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

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

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

“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.” 

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

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

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

“””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 much else, is the essence of leadership.”””

“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

“I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.”

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

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

“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?”

“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”

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

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

“Change before you have to.”

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

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“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.”

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

“Our business is about technology, yes. But its also about operations and customer relationships.”

“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.”

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

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

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

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

“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.”

“Dont follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”

“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 persons vision to higher sights, the raising of a persons performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

“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.”