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

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

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if youre going to be a success, whether youre in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

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

“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.”

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

“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.”

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

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

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

“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.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”

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

“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.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

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

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

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

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

“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”

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

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“Leaders dont inflict pain, they share pain.”

“Great companies are built on great products.”

“Its easy to make a buck. Its a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

“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 it out.” 

“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.”

“You cant be successful in business without taking risks. Its really that simple.”

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

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

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.”

“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.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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

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

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

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

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

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

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

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

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

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

“The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

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

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

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“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.”

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”

“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”

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

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

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”