“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” 

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“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.”

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

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

“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”

“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.”

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

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

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

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

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

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

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

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

“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.”

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

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

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

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

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

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

“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 secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

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

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

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

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“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.”

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

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.”

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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 not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

“You’re smart, you’re a survivor; use your intelligence and instincts to get to a better position than the one you’re in now”.

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

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

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

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

“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.”

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”