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

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Earn your leadership every day.”

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: It was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

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

“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.”

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

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”

“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.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

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

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

If The World Says “No”, You Say “Next”… Never Give Up

“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.”

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

“Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.”

“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.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

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

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

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”

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

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

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

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.”

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

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

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

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

“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Business is all about the customer; what the customer wants and what they get. Generally, every customer wants a product or service that solves their problem, worth their money, and is delivered with amazing customer service.”

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

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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

“Details create the big picture.”

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

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

“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.”

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

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

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

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

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

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

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

  “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.” 

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

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

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

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

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

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

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