“Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.”

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

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

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

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

“The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter …
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“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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

“Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.”

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

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

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

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

“When people talk, listen completely.”

“Details create the big picture.”

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

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

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being.” 

“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.”

“The most effective way to lead is to lead from within.”

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

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

“Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to make something simple.”

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

“The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.”

“Don’t worry about funding if you don’t need it. Today it’s cheaper to start a business than ever.”

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.”

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

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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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“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.”

“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.”

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

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

 “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.”

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

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

“There are no office hours for leaders.”

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

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”

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

“You can’t make anything viral, but you can make something good.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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?”

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

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

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

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and youre in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.” 

“Success isn’t just about what you accomplish in your life; it’s about what you inspire others to do.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”

“Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”

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

  “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

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

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

“If you think you are leading, and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.”

“Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”