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

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

“The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.”

“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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“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”

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

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

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

“Ninety percent of leadership is the ability to communicate something people want.”

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

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

“Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.” 

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

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

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

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?”

“Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it’s …
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Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

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

“No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.”

“If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“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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“So often, people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”

“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.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

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

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

“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

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

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

The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

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

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”

“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

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

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

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

Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.”

“If you have more than three priorities, then you don’t have any.”

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

“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.

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

“When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates.”

“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.”

“You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small, but meaningful accomplishments.”

“We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves”

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

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

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

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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“There is no progress without change.”

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.”

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

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

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

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

“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 business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.”

“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.” 

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

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

“Dont blow off anothers candle for it wont make yours shine brighter.” 

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.”

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

“A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”

“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting …
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If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

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

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

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

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

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others see.”

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

Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.”

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

“Don’t tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”