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

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Dont be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for youll be criticized anyway.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

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

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people dont want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.”

“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.”

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

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

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

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

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

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

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

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

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

“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.

“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”

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

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

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

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything. I myself have been guilty of over-thinking problems. Just build things and find out if they work.”

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

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

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“Simplicity is a great way to build something that works well without costing too much.”

“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

“A leader…is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.”

“Leaders arent born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And thats the price well have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.”

“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

“The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

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

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

“Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

“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.”

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

“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.”

“An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”

“Were all working together; thats the secret.”

“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.”

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

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

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

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.”

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

“Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves.”

“Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”

“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.”

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“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.”

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

“Just because something doesnt do what you planned it to do doesnt mean its useless.”

“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.”

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”

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

“If youre not sure where you are going, youre liable to end up someplace else.”

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

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