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

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

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

“The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your …
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“Truth builds trust.” 

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

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

“A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.”

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

“A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so that they can get on with their jobs.”

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

“We’re all working together; that’s the secret.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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

“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.” 

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

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

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”

“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.”

“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.”

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

“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”

“Leadership is unlocking peoples potential to become better.”

 “Don’t ever let your business get ahead of the financial side of your business. Accounting, Accounting, Accounting. Know your numbers.”

 “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.”

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

“Stay self-funded as long as possible.”

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

 “Almost all quality improvements come via simplification of design, manufacturing … layout, processes, and procedures.”

“There is no progress without change.”

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

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

“A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

“Details create the big picture.”

“Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

“I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result …
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“Who wishes to fight must first count the cost”.

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

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

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

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

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of …
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“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”

  “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”

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

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

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

It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

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

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

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”

“They told me computers could only do arithmetic.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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

“The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.”

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

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

“The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.”

“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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“Everybody has a plan, until they get punched in the face.”

“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 quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

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

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

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

“Your customers are the lifeblood of your business. Their needs and wants impact every aspect of your business, from product development to content marketing to sales to customer service.”

“In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember; the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.”

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

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

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