“I cant imagine a person becoming a success who doesnt give this game of life everything hes got.”

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

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

“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”

“Details create the big picture.”

“Fortune does favor the bold and youll never know what youre capable of if you dont try.” 

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

“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.” 

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”

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

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

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

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

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

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

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

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

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

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

“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”

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

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

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

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

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

“The supreme quality of leadership is integrity.”

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.”

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

“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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“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”

If you can dream it, you can do it.”

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

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

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

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

“Leadership is an action, not a position.”

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

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

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

“If you’re passionate about something and you work hard, then I think you will be successful.”

“Anything that is measured and watched, improves.”

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

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

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”

“Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.”

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

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

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

 “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

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

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

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

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

“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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 “It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.”

“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.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” 

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

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

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

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

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

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”

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

“If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.”

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

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

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

“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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