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

“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”

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

“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

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

“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.”

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

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

“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.”

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

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

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”

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

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

“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.” 

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

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s profitable.”

“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.” 

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.”

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

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

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

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

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

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.”

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

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

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

“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.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“Leadership is not magnetic personality that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people,” that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

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

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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

“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.”

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

“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”

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

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

“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.”

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

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

“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 is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

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

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