“There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you’ve been in the business.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

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

“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.”

“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”

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

“You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.”

“A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.”

“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”

“Leadership is an ever-evolving position.”

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

“Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive, determination, and more drive.” 

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

“A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.”

“Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you’re going to be a success, whether you’re in sports, in business or, as in my case, anthropology.”

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

“Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.”

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

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

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

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

“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

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

“The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the …
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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

“Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or …
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“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”

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

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

 “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.”

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?”

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

“Always deliver more than expected.”

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

“You manage things; you lead people.”

“Don’t be cocky. Don’t be flashy. There’s always someone better than you.”

“Success isnt just about what you accomplish in your life; its about what you inspire others to do.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

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

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

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

“Leaders don’t inflict pain, they share pain.”

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

“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.”

“In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.”

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

“When you crave the end result, the hard work becomes irrelevant.”

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

“Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.”

“The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.”

“The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.”

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

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

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

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.”

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

“A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”

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.”

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

“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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“Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.” 

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

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

“Small business isnt for the faint of heart. Its for the brave, the patient, and the persistent. Its for the overcomer.”

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

“He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.”

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

“To add value to others, one must first value others.” 

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

“Doing what is right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what is right.”

“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

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

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

 “Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important.” 

“You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.”

“The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.”

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a mans character, give him power.”

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; …
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“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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