“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And …
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Steve Jobs
“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
Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.”
Roger Staubach
“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
Martin Luther
“Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”
Michael Dell
“Do what is easy and your life will be hard. Do what is hard and your life will become easy.”
Les Brown
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”
Anonymous
“We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.”
Sheryl Sandberg
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Star Jordan
“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”
Lakshmi Mittal
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”
Josiah Charles Stamp
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”
Guy Kawasaki
“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
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”
Warren Buffett
“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”
Jim Collins
“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos
“Always deliver more than expected.”
Larry Page
“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you’re in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”
Sidney Sheldon
“Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States
“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
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”
Bill Gates, Principal Founder of Microsoft Corporation
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
Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
Publilius Syrus
“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”
Lisa Stone, Co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”
Stephen Covey
“Opportunities dont happen. You create them.”
Chris Grosser, Photographer
“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”
Bill Bradley, American Politician and Former Basketball Player
“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
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics, and there are no easy shortcuts to success. Ethics need to …
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Vivek Wadhwa
“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
Margaret Thatcher
“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”
Peter Daisyme
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
King George VI
“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”
Reid Hoffman
“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.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle, Business Leader, Coach, Speaker, and Author
“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”
Anonymous
“An entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”
David Karp
“I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”
Bill Gates
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates
“You manage things; you lead people.”
Grace Murray Hopper
“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 …
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Douglas MacArthur
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
Richard Branson
“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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Sara Blakely
“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”
Noah Everett
Nothing works better than just improving your product.”
Joel Spolsky
“The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.”
Margaret Wheatley, Management Consultant and Writer
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
“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”
Richard Branson
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston S. Churchill
“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”
Jonathan Winters
“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”
Max De Pree
“Being good is good business.”
Anita Roddick
“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”
Warren Bennis
“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”
Brian Tracy
“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”
Benjamin Hooks
“I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.”
Estee Lauder
Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”
Jim Rohn
“Business has only two functions; Marketing and Innovation.”
Peter Drucker
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?”
Jill Konrath
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“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
“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
Scott Belsky
“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”
Seth Godin
“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.”
John C. Maxwell
“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
“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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John Paul Dejoria
“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”
Oscar Wilde
“When people talk, listen completely.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.”
Steve Jobs
“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”
Pat Riley
“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Leadership is an action, not a position.”
Donald Mcgannon, former American Broadcasting Industry Executive
The things we fear most in organizations–fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances–are the primary sources of creativity.
Margaret Wheatley
“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”
Bob Parsons
“Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”
Winston S. Churchill
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
Stephen Hawking
“Truth builds trust.”
Marilyn Suttle
“Dont be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist and Philanthropist
“There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.”
Sophie Kinsella
“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.”
Steve Jobs
“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”
John Zenger
“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”
Stephen King
“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
“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 …
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Ray Goforth
If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”
Reid Hoffman
“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.”
Arnold Glasow
“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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Jeff Bezos
“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”
Jack Welch
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
Ralph Nader
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”