“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
Josiah Charles Stamp
“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”
Howard Schultz
“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, …
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Henry Ford
“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Thomas Edison, Inventor and Co-Founder of General Electric
“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.”
Elon Musk
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“It is absolutely necessary…for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.”
George Washington
“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”
Michael Leboeuf
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Dont wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author and Motivational Speaker
“Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”
Chris Dixon
“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney
“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”
Orrin Woodward
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.”
Mark Zuckerberg
“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”
Unknown
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.”
Dave Thomas
“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.”
Margaret Wheatley
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”
Caterina Fake
“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”
Arnold Glasow
“Life is about making an impact, not making an income.”
Kevin Kruse
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
Edith Wharton
Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”
Anthony Volodkin
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”
Jeff Bezos
“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”
Jack Welch
“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
Donald Mcgannon, former American Broadcasting Industry Executive
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly.”
P. T. Barnum
“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.”
Gary Ryan Blair
“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”
Tony Hsieh
“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
“Details create the big picture.”
Sanford I. Weill
“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur, Author, and Motivational Speaker
“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley, American Politician and Former Basketball Player
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
Martin Luther King
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Peter Drucker
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
John F. Kennedy
“The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow.”
Ingvar Kamprad
“I try not to make any decisions that I’m not excited about.”
Jake Nickell
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
Publilius Syrus
“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”
Ryan Allis
“The led must not be compelled. They must be able to choose their own leader.”
Albert Einstein
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
John C. Maxwell
“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”
Sam Rayburn
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
Steve Jobs
“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”
Jim Collins
“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston S. Churchill
“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.”
Margaret Wheatley
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
Steve Jobs
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Steve Jobs
“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”
Dr. Orison Swett Marden
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”
Biz Stone
“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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Nelson Mandela
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”
John C. Maxwell
“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not …
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Jim Rohn
“Being good is good business.”
Anita Roddick
“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”
Pete Hoekstra
“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”
Richard Branson
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.”
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
John C. Maxwell
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
“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.”
Tim O’Reilly
“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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Tony Robbins
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
David Brinkley, Newscaster for NBC and ABC
“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”
Bryant H. Mcgill
If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”
Marissa Mayer
“You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader”
Henry Ford
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”
Harvey S. Firestone
“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”
Confucius
“When people talk, listen completely.”
Ernest Hemingway
“There’s nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.”
Jason Fried
“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 …
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Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
Bill Cosby
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
Herman Melville
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook and Founder of LeanIn.org
“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin
“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 …
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Steve Jobs
“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”
Ovid
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
Japanese Proverb
“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”
Mike Krzyzewski
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
Zig Ziglar
“Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die”.
Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company
“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.”
Ray Kroc
“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.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook
It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
Adlai E. Stevenson II
“Great companies are built on great products.”
Elon Musk
“I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”
Solon
“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”