“You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.”
Oprah Winfrey, Media Proprietor
“Great things in business are never done by one person. Theyre done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“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.”
Donald Johanson, Anthropologist, Co-Discoverer of the “Lucy” Fossil
“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”
Jeanette Rankin, Fomer Politician and Women’s Rights Advocate
“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”
Larry Page, Co-Founder of Google
“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.”
George Orwell, Novelist, Essayist, Journalist and Critic
“Knowledge is power is time is money.”
Robert Thier, Historian and Award-Winning Author
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
J.P. Morgan, American Financier and Banker
“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 value of an idea lies in the using of it.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”
Pete Hoekstra, former US Politician and Diplomat
“A person who is quietly confident makes the best leader.”
Fred Wilson, Co-Founder of Union Square Ventures
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, and Designer
“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
“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”
John Buchan, Novelist, Historian, and former Governor General of Canada
“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.”
Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s
“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”
Harold Geneen, Businessman and Former President of ITT Corporation
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.”
Brian Tracy, Motivational Public Speaker and Self-Development Author
“Those who let things happen usually lose to those who make things happen.”
Dave Weinbaum, Radio Show Host
“It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”
Jason Cohen, Founder of SmartBear Software
“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.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”
Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon
“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.”
Vince Lombardi, American Football Player, Coach, and Executive
“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”
Leroy Eimes, Writer
“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, Management Consultant, Educator, and Author
“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”
Unknown
“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”
Lolly Daskal, Leadership Coach, Business Consultant and Author
“When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue.”
Josh James, CEO and Co-Founder of Omniture
“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”
Bob Parsons, Founder of GoDaddy
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
Josiah Charles Stamp, Former President of the Bank of England
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
Arnold Glasow, Businessman and Humorist
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain during World War II
“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”
Seth Godin, Author and Former Dot Com Business Executive
“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, Writer and Lecturer
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead, Ph.D., Cultural Anthropologist, Author, and Speaker
“If youre trying to create a company, its like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
Elon Musk, Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla, Founder and CEO of SpaceX
“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.”
Charles F. Kettering, Inventor and Businessman
“Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.”
Joel Spolsky, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”
Robert Kiyosaki, Author and Founder of The Rich Dad Company
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”
Walter Cronkite, Broadcast Journalist and TV Anchor
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain during World War II
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”
Brian Tracy, Motivational Public Speaker and Self-Development Author
“The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.”
Margaret Wheatley, Management Consultant and Writer
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther King Jr., Leader of The US Civil Rights Movement
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp, Founder and CEO of Tumblr
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher, Writer, Historian, and Mathematician
“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
“There is no progress without change.”
John Wooden, Legendary American Basketball Coach and Former Player
“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States of America
“Leaders dont inflict pain, they share pain.”
Max De Pree, Businessman, Writer, and Former CEO of Herman Miller
“Great companies are built on great products.”
Elon Musk, Co-Founder and CEO of Tesla, Founder and CEO of SpaceX
“Its easy to make a buck. Its a lot tougher to make a difference.”
Tom Brokaw, Television Journalist and Author
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker
“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.”
Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“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.”
Ben Silbermann, Founder of Pinterest
“You cant be successful in business without taking risks. Its really that simple.”
Adena Friedman, President and CEO of Nasdaq
“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”
Thomas Jefferson, Founding Father and President of the United States
“Just because something doesnt do what you planned it to do doesnt mean its useless.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”
Robert Noyce, Inventor of The Silicon Chip
“Our business is about technology, yes. But its also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell, Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies
“Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.”
Sallie Krawcheck, CEO and Co-Founder of Ellevest
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
Gerard Way Singer, Songwriter, Musician, and Comic Book Writer
“An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
Jack Welch, Former Chairman and CEO of General Electric
“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
Donald Mcgannon, former American Broadcasting Industry Executive
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
Harvey S. Firestone, One of The First Global Makers Of Automobile Tires
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of AllTop
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States of America
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle, Business Leader, Coach, Speaker, and Author
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid, Roman Poet
“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.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
“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 King Jr., Leader of The US Civil Rights Movement
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”
Aristotle Onassis, Greek Shipping Magnate
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”
Jonathan Winters, Comedian, Actor, Author, and Artist
“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, Co-Founder of Linkedin
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
“Some people dream of success; while other people get up every morning and make it happen.”
Wayne Huizenga, owner of Blockbuster Video and the Miami Dolphins
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
Stephen King, Author of Horror, Supernatural, and Suspense Fiction
“Dont let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.”
Robert Kiyosaki, Author and Founder of The Rich Dad Company
“If you really want to do something, youll find a way. If you dont, youll find an excuse.”
Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
Aristotle, Ancient Greek Philosopher and Scientist
“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”
Tony Robbins, Life and Business Strategist, and Author
“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.”
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”
Jim Collins, Author and Lecturer
“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.”
Jocko Willink, Podcaster, Author and Retired Navy SEAL
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author, and Motivational Speaker
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Maya Angelou, Poet, and Civil Rights Activist
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
“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.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.”
Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook and Founder of LeanIn.org
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German Writer and Statesman
“In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.”
Steve Case, Co-Founder of AOL
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”
Oscar Wilde, Poet and Playwright
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
William Arthur Ward, Writer and Poet
“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”