“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the …
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“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

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

 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“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 …
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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

“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.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution …
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“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

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

“If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

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

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

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

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

“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 …
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“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

“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 …
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

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

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

“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You are more than what you do. Your title should not confine you, and your job does not define you.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–It is: Try to please everybody.”

 “If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”

“There is no progress without change.”

“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.”

“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”

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

“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

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

“Creativity without Strategy is called Art. Creativity with Strategy is called Advertising.”

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

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

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

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

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

“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“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”.

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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

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

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

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”

“Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Knowledge is power is time is money.” 

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or, are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?”