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

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

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

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

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”

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

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

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

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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

“Whether you think you can, or think you can’t – you’re right.”

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

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

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

“Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“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.”

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

“There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.”

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

“My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.”

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

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

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!”

“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 …
Continue reading Steve Jobs, Co-Founder, and former Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

“Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.”

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

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

“Formal education will make you a living; self education will make you a fortune.”

“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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“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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

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

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

 “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.” 

“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.”

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.”

 “Don’t 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.”

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

“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.”

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?”

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

“Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.”

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

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

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.”

“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.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

 “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.”

“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”

“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.”

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

“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.”

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

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

 “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

“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.

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

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.”

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I dont think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

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

“I start each day by telling myself what a positive influence I am on this world.”

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

“Have the end in mind; and every day make sure you’re working towards it”

“All humans are entrepreneurs; not because they should start companies; but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.”

“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 …
Continue reading Thomas Edison

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

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.”

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“When I’m old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say ‘wow, that was an adventure,’ not ‘wow, I sure felt safe.’”

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

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

“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.” 

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

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