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

“No amount of money or success can take the place of time spent with your family.”

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

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”

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

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

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

“Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”

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

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

“Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”

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

“Just because something doesnt do what you planned it to do doesnt mean its useless.”

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

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people dont want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.”

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

“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”

“If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, if you can’t walk; then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.

“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.”

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

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

“I find that the harder I work; the more luck I seem to have.”

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

“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.” 

“””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.”””

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

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

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

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

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

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

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

“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 its profitable.”

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”

“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.”

“Were all working together; thats the secret.”

“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.”

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

“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 persons vision to higher sights, the raising of a persons performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

“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.”

“True leadership lies in guiding others to success; in ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“If youre not stubborn, youll give up on experiments too soon. And if youre not flexible, youll pound your head against the wall and you wont see a different solution to a problem youre trying to solve.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

“Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

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

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

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

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“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.”

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

“Dont set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

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

“It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself.

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

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

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

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

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

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”