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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of dissolution is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.”

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

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

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

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

“Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

“No more romanticizing about how cool it is to be an entrepreneur. It’s a struggle to save your company’s life – and your own skin – every day of the week.”

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

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

“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.”

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

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

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

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

“The greatest leaders mobilize others by coalescing people around a shared vision.”

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

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

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

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

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

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

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

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

“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long youve been in the business.”

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

“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 challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from everybody else.”

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

“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.”

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

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

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

“Doing what is right isnt the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

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

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“””A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.”””

“Truth builds trust.” 

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