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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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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“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”

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

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

“The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”

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

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

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

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

If you can push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking a risk, really amazing things can happen.”

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

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

“I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”

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

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

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

“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”

“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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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“Truth builds trust.” 

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

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

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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

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

“Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead.”

“Being good is good business.”

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

“To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.”

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

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

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

“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results, not attributes.”

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the upmarket.”

“Embrace what you don’t know, especially in the beginning, because what you don’t know can become your greatest asset. It ensures that you will absolutely be doing things different from …
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“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.”

“I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

“Dont tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

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

“Earn your leadership every day.”

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

“You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

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

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

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

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

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

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

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

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

“Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

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

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

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

“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.”

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

“You don’t need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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