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

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

“If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.”

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

“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

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

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

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

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

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“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.”

“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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“Great companies are built on great products.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.” 

“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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“Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.”

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

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.”

“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.”

“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”

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

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they dont quit.”

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“Choose a job that you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Small business isn’t for the faint of heart. It’s for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. It’s for the overcomer.”

“To have long-term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

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?”

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

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

“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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“Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.”

 “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.”

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

“Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things”

“Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.”

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

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”

“A leader is a person you will follow to a place you would not go by yourself.”

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

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

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”

 “There’s no luck in business. There’s only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

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

“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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“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

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

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

“Opportunities don’t happen. You create them”

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.”

“Don’t take too much advice. Most people who have a lot of advice to give — with a few exceptions — generalize whatever they did. Don’t over-analyze everything.  I myself …
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“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles, and positions.” 

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

“Average leaders raise the bar on themselves; good leaders raise the bar for others; great leaders inspire others to raise their own bar.”

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“The secret to success is to know something nobody else knows.”

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

The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.”

“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.”

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

“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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“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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“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

“I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through–then follow through.”

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an …
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